GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q vs RTX A5000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking36not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency17.67no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA102GA107
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date12 April 2021 (3 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 cores81922560
Core clock speed1170 MHz735 MHz
Boost clock speed1695 MHz1035 MHz
Number of transistors28,300 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)230 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate433.982.80
Floating-point processing power27.77 TFLOPS5.299 TFLOPS
ROPs9632
TMUs25680
Tensor Cores25680
Ray Tracing Cores6420

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 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

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 amount24 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth768.0 GB/s176.0 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 DisplayPort 1.4aPortable 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 Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 230 Watt 75 Watt

RTX A5000 has a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q, on the other hand, has 206.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX A5000 and GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX A5000 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q is a notebook one.


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