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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 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 Mobile Refresh 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1492MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh +270%

6.111 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

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

1237 MHz

Base Clock

-

1492 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

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

47.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

95.49 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

6.111 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.111 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

95.49 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Saturn

-

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.08 billion

Unknown

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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