GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs Radeon RX Vega Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated309
Place by popularitynot in top-10025
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data37.01
Power efficiencyno data13.42
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega MobileGA107
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2018 (6 years ago)27 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$199

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 cores17922048
Core clock speedno data1545 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1740 MHz
Number of transistorsno data8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)90 Watt90 Watt
Texture fill rateno data111.4
Floating-point processing powerno data7.127 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
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 sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data242 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.0 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 data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2018 27 January 2022
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm

RTX 3050 4 GB has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega Mobile and GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega Mobile is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega Mobile
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
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