NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages
Lower TDP (35W vs 50W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 77% (1755MHz vs 990MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB
4.055 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
+121%
8.986 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2022
Release Date
Jan 2023
GeForce 30 Mobile
Generation
GeForce 40 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
622 MHz
Base Clock
1455 MHz
990 MHz
Boost Clock
1755 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
96bit
Memory Bus
96bit
144.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
20
2048
Shading Units
2560
64
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
48
64
Tensor Cores
80
16
RT Cores
20
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
12 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
84.24 GPixel/s
63.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
140.4 GTexel/s
4.055 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
8.986 TFLOPS
4.055 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.986 TFLOPS
63.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
140.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
50W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
AD107
-
GPU Variant
GN21-X2
Ampere
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
5 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
18.9 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
159 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
8.9
6.7
Shader Model
6.8
