GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh vs Radeon RX 7800 XT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking30not rated
Place by popularity40not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation68.04no data
Power efficiency16.46no data
ArchitectureRDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 32GA107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date25 August 2023 (1 year ago)6 July 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$499 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 cores38402048
Core clock speed1295 MHz1237 MHz
Boost clock speed2430 MHz1492 MHz
Number of transistors28,100 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology5 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)263 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate583.295.49
Floating-point processing power37.32 TFLOPS6.111 TFLOPS
ROPs9632
TMUs24064
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Cores6016

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 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed2438 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth624.1 GB/s144.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1a, 3x DisplayPort 2.1No outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.23.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 August 2023 6 July 2022
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 5 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 263 Watt 75 Watt

RX 7800 XT has an age advantage of 1 year, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 60% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh, on the other hand, has 250.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 7800 XT and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 7800 XT is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
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