GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated235
Place by popularitynot in top-10045
Power efficiencyno data21.98
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameBroadwayGA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date12 July 2011 (13 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 cores8002048
Core clock speed800 MHz712 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1057 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate32.0067.65
Floating-point processing power1.28 TFLOPS4.329 TFLOPS
ROPs1640
TMUs4064
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 4.0 x16

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1100 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth70.4 GB/s192.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.6
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 July 2011 11 May 2021
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 75 Watt

RTX 3050 Mobile has an age advantage of 9 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 400% more advanced lithography process, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

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AMD Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand
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