GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB sales 6 July 2022. This is a laptop graphics card based on an Ampere architecture and made with 8 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 6 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 96 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 144.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x8 interface. Power consumption is at 75 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GA107
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	6 July 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2048	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	1237 MHz	of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Boost clock speed	1492 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	of 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	95.49	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	6.111 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	32	of 192 (GA100)
TMUs	64	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores	64	of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores	16	of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	96 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	144.0 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.7
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	3.0
Vulkan	1.3
CUDA	8.6

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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