GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs Quadro Plex 7000

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
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGF110GA107
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)6 July 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$14,999 no data

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 cores5122048
Core clock speed574 MHz622 MHz
Boost clock speedno data990 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)600 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate36.7463.36
Floating-point processing power1.176 TFLOPS4.055 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs6464
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length522 mmno data
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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB6 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed750 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth144.0 GB/s144.0 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 Connectors4x DVI, 2x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA2.08.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2011 6 July 2022
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 600 Watt 35 Watt

RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB has an age advantage of 10 years, a 400% more advanced lithography process, and 1614.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro Plex 7000 and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro Plex 7000 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000
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