GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB vs Radeon 680M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking333not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency22.13no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRembrandt+GA107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores7682560
Core clock speed2000 MHz1237 MHz
Boost clock speed2200 MHz1492 MHz
Number of transistors13,100 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate105.6119.4
Floating-point processing power3.379 TFLOPS7.639 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs4880
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Cores1220

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
WidthIGPno 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared6 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared96 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data168.0 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 DependentPortable 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
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2023 6 July 2022
Chip lithography 6 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 75 Watt

Radeon 680M has an age advantage of 5 months, a 33.3% more advanced lithography process, and 50% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 680M and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 680M is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon 680M
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