GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q vs Quadro T1000 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking309not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency24.89no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU117GA107
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date27 May 2019 (5 years ago)11 May 2021 (3 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 cores8962048
Core clock speed765 MHz712 MHz
Boost clock speed1350 MHz1057 MHz
Number of transistors4,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate75.6067.65
Floating-point processing power2.419 TFLOPS4.329 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs5664
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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth80 GB/s176.0 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA7.58.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2019 11 May 2021
Chip lithography 12 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 35 Watt

RTX 3050 Max-Q has an age advantage of 1 year, a 50% more advanced lithography process, and 42.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro T1000 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro T1000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro T1000 Max-Q
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