GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh vs RTX A1000 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking222not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency28.24no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA107GA107
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date30 March 2022 (2 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 cores20482048
Core clock speed630 MHz1237 MHz
Boost clock speed1140 MHz1492 MHz
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate72.9695.49
Floating-point processing power4.669 TFLOPS6.111 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6464
Tensor Cores6464
Ray Tracing Cores1616

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 4.0 x8PCIe 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 amount4 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth176.0 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
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 March 2022 6 July 2022
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 75 Watt

RTX A1000 Mobile has 25% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 months, and a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between RTX A1000 Mobile and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX A1000 Mobile is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile
RTX A1000 Mobile
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

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