NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh vs AMD Radeon E9172 MXM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

AMD Radeon E9172 MXM

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh and 2GB VRAM Radeon E9172 MXM 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 4 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon E9172 MXM 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1219MHz vs 990MHz)

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh +224%

4.055 TFLOPS

Radeon E9172 MXM

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh

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Radeon E9172 MXM

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

622 MHz

Base Clock

1124 MHz

990 MHz

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

64bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

35W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Lexa

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GPU Variant

E9170

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.2 billion

Unknown

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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