GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile vs Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated214
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data28.71
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameMarsGN20-P0-R 6 GB
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 January 2014 (10 years ago)6 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores3842560
Core clock speed650 MHz1237 MHz
Boost clock speed700 MHz1492 MHz
Number of transistors950 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate16.80no data
Floating-point processing power0.5376 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs24no data

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 x8no 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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz12000 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/sno data
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 data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12_2
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 January 2014 6 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm

RTX 3050 6GB Mobile has an age advantage of 8 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand and GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile
GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile

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