NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh vs Intel Arc A550M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh and 8GB VRAM Arc A550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 10% (990MHz vs 900MHz)
Intel Arc A550M 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh
+10%
4.055 TFLOPS
Arc A550M
3.686 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2022
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 30 Mobile
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
622 MHz
Base Clock
300 MHz
990 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
96bit
Memory Bus
128bit
144.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
2048
64
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
64
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
16
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
63.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
115.2 GTexel/s
4.055 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
7.373 TFLOPS
4.055 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.686 TFLOPS
63.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
60W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
DG2-512
-
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Ampere
Architecture
Generation 12.7
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
6 nm
Unknown
Transistors
21.7 billion
Unknown
Die Size
406 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
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.6
