GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB vs RTX A500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking312not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency20.06no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA107GA107
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date10 November 2021 (3 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 cores20482560
Core clock speed1440 MHz1237 MHz
Boost clock speed1770 MHz1492 MHz
Number of transistorsno data8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate113.3119.4
Floating-point processing power7.25 TFLOPS7.639 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6480
Tensor Cores6480
Ray Tracing Cores1620

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 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 width64 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth112.0 GB/s168.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable 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 Model6.76.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2021 6 July 2022
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 75 Watt

RTX A500 has 25% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 months, and a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between RTX A500 and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX A500 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA RTX A500
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