Radeon Graphics 512SP Mobile vs GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking177not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency16.50no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGA106Lucienne
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date4 January 2022 (2 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 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 cores2560512
Core clock speed1515 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1755 MHz1900 MHz
Number of transistors12,000 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate140.460.80
Floating-point processing power8.986 TFLOPS1.946 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs8032
Tensor Cores80no data
Ray Tracing Cores20no data

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 x8IGP
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/sno data

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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.66.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.1
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2022 12 January 2021
Chip lithography 8 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 130 Watt 25 Watt

RTX 3050 OEM has an age advantage of 11 months.

Graphics 512SP Mobile, on the other hand, has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 420% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 OEM and Radeon Graphics 512SP Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
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AMD Radeon Graphics 512SP Mobile
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