GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB vs RTX 4090 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking18not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency41.16no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameAD103GA107
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 cores97282560
Core clock speed1335 MHz652 MHz
Boost clock speed1695 MHz1207 MHz
Number of transistors45,900 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate515.396.56
Floating-point processing power32.98 TFLOPS6.18 TFLOPS
ROPs11232
TMUs30480
Tensor Cores30480
Ray Tracing Cores7620

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

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 amount16 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth576.0 GB/s224.0 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
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 4 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 45 Watt

RTX 4090 Mobile has an age advantage of 5 months, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB, on the other hand, has 166.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile
GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB

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