RTX A4500 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking236not rated
Place by popularity45not in top-100
Power efficiency21.64no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA107GA104
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date11 May 2021 (3 years ago)22 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 cores20485888
Core clock speed712 MHz510 MHz
Boost clock speed1057 MHz1215 MHz
Number of transistorsno data17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate67.65223.6
Floating-point processing power4.329 TFLOPS14.31 TFLOPS
ROPs4096
TMUs64184
Tensor Cores64184
Ray Tracing Cores1646

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 GB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s448.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 May 2021 22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 16 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 80 Watt

RTX 3050 Mobile has 6.7% lower power consumption.

RTX A4500 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 months, and a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile and RTX A4500 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile is a notebook graphics card while RTX A4500 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
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