GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB vs Quadro T500 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking483not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency34.32no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU117GA107
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date2 December 2020 (4 years 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 cores8962560
Core clock speed1365 MHz1237 MHz
Boost clock speed1695 MHz1492 MHz
Number of transistors4,700 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate94.92119.4
Floating-point processing power3.037 TFLOPS7.639 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs5680
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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

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 amount2 GB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth80 GB/s168.0 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA7.58.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 December 2020 6 July 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 75 Watt

T500 Mobile has 316.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro T500 Mobile and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro T500 Mobile is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro T500 Mobile
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

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