GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh vs RTX 4070 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking55not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency30.51no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameAD106GA107
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 cores46082048
Core clock speed1395 MHz622 MHz
Boost clock speed1695 MHz990 MHz
Manufacturing process technology4 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate244.163.36
Floating-point processing power15.62 TFLOPS4.055 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs14464
Tensor Cores14464
Ray Tracing Cores3616

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 amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 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 DependentNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2023 6 July 2022
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 4 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 75 Watt

RTX 4070 Mobile has an age advantage of 5 months, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh, on the other hand, has 53.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile
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