GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile vs Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated205
Place by popularitynot in top-10090
Power efficiencyno data24.33
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTahitiGA106
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date31 January 2012 (12 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 cores15362560
Core clock speed925 MHz735 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1035 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)185 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate88.8082.80
Floating-point processing power2.842 TFLOPS5.299 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs9680
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount3 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth240.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 January 2012 11 May 2021
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 185 Watt 75 Watt

RTX 3050 Ti Mobile has an age advantage of 9 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 146.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
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