GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile vs Radeon HD 6690G2

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated212
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data28.96
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameno dataGN20-P0-R 6 GB
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date14 June 2011 (13 years ago)6 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores8802560
Core clock speedno data1237 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1492 MHz
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)

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 sizedlarge

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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data6 GB
Memory bus widthno data96 Bit
Memory clock speedno data12000 MHz
Shared memory--

API compatibility

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

DirectX1112_2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 June 2011 6 January 2023
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm

RTX 3050 6GB Mobile has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 400% more advanced lithography process.

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AMD Radeon HD 6690G2
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile
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