GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q vs Radeon Pro SSG

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking197not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.08no data
Power efficiency7.51no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameFijiGA107
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date26 July 2016 (8 years ago)11 May 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$9,999 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores40962048
Core clock speed1000 MHz712 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHz1057 MHz
Number of transistors8,900 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)260 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate268.867.65
Floating-point processing power8.602 TFLOPS4.329 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs25664
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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 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 typeHBMGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI 1.4a, 3x mini-DisplayPort 1.2No outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.2.1701.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 July 2016 11 May 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 260 Watt 35 Watt

RTX 3050 Max-Q has an age advantage of 4 years, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 642.9% lower power consumption.

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

Be aware that Radeon Pro SSG is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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