Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5 vs GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGA107Weston
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 July 2022 (2 years ago)18 April 2017 (7 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 cores2048384
Core clock speed1237 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speed1492 MHz891 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate95.4921.38
Floating-point processing power6.111 TFLOPS0.6843 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs6424
Tensor Cores64no data
Ray Tracing Cores16no 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 x8PCIe 3.0 x8

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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount6 GB2 GB
Memory bus width96 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth144.0 GB/s28.8 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 (12_0)
Shader Model6.66.5 (6.0)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.1
Vulkan1.31.2.170
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 July 2022 18 April 2017
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 50 Watt

RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh has an age advantage of 5 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

530 Mobile GDDR5, on the other hand, has 50% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh and Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh
AMD Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5
Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5

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