GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs RTX 4050 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking123not rated
Place by popularity54not in top-100
Power efficiency51.42no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameAD107GA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year ago)6 July 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 cores25602048
Core clock speed1455 MHz622 MHz
Boost clock speed1755 MHz990 MHz
Manufacturing process technology4 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate140.463.36
Floating-point processing power8.986 TFLOPS4.055 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs8064
Tensor Cores8064
Ray Tracing Cores2016

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 x8
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 amount6 GB6 GB
Memory bus width96 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed16000 GB/s1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s144.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable 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 Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2023 6 July 2022
Chip lithography 4 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 35 Watt

RTX 4050 Mobile has an age advantage of 5 months, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB, on the other hand, has 42.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB
GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

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