GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated236
Place by popularitynot in top-10045
Power efficiencyno data21.64
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameBaffinGA107
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date1 March 2017 (7 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 cores10242048
Core clock speed1002 MHz712 MHz
Boost clock speed1053 MHz1057 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate67.3967.65
Floating-point processing power2.157 TFLOPS4.329 TFLOPS
ROPs1640
TMUs6464
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
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 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 amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth112.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2017 11 May 2021
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 75 Watt

Pro WX 4170 Mobile has 50% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
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