NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1343MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile +191%

4.813 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jan 2024

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

-

1343 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

14

SM Count

-

1792

Shading Units

768

56

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

56

Tensor Cores

-

14

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

75.21 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

4.813 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.813 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

75.21 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Saturn

-

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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