GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB vs Radeon RX 570

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	305	not rated
Place by popularity	22	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	15.99	no data
Power efficiency	10.33	no data
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	Polaris 20	GA107
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	18 April 2017 (7 years ago)	6 July 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$169	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	2048	2560
Core clock speed	1168 MHz	1237 MHz
Boost clock speed	1244 MHz	1492 MHz
Number of transistors	5,700 million	8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	75 Watt
Texture fill rate	159.2	119.4
Floating-point processing power	5.095 TFLOPS	7.639 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	128	80
Tensor Cores	no data	80
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	20

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	241 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	no 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 type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	96 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	168.0 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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	Portable Device Dependent
HDMI	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync

+

-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.4	6.8
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	3.0
Vulkan	+	1.3
CUDA	-	8.6

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	18 April 2017	6 July 2022
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	75 Watt

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