NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh vs NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh and 8GB VRAM RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 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
Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)
NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 71% (1695MHz vs 990MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)
2560 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh
4.055 TFLOPS
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
+285%
15.62 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2022
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 30 Mobile
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
622 MHz
Base Clock
1395 MHz
990 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
96bit
Memory Bus
128bit
144.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
36
2048
Shading Units
4608
64
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
48
64
Tensor Cores
144
16
RT Cores
36
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
81.36 GPixel/s
63.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
244.1 GTexel/s
4.055 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
15.62 TFLOPS
4.055 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
15.62 TFLOPS
63.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
244.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
115W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
AD106
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-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
5 nm
Unknown
Transistors
22.9 billion
Unknown
Die Size
188 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
6.6
Shader Model
6.7
