GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs Radeon R4 Mobile Graphics

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated232
Place by popularitynot in top-10044
Power efficiencyno data21.89
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameSpectre SLGA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date17 September 2014 (10 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 cores1922048
Core clock speed533 MHz712 MHz
Boost clock speed655 MHz1057 MHz
Number of transistors2,410 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)17 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate6.39667.65
Floating-point processing power0.2047 TFLOPS4.329 TFLOPS
ROPs840
TMUs1264
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
InterfaceIGPPCIe 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 Model6.06.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 September 2014 11 May 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 17 Watt 75 Watt

R4 Mobile Graphics has 341.2% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R4 Mobile Graphics and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R4 Mobile Graphics
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
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