RTX A1000 Embedded vs GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated188
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data58.29
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA107GA107S
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date11 May 2021 (3 years ago)30 March 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores20482048
Core clock speed712 MHz630 MHz
Boost clock speed1057 MHz1140 MHz
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate67.6572.96
Floating-point processing power4.329 TFLOPS4.669 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6464
Tensor Cores6464
Ray Tracing Cores1616

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth176.0 GB/s224.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 May 2021 30 March 2022

RTX A1000 Embedded has an age advantage of 10 months.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q and RTX A1000 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q is a notebook graphics card while RTX A1000 Embedded is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q
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