AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

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AMD Radeon 520 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock990MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh +515%

4.055 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

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GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jul 2022

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

622 MHz

-

Boost Clock

990 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

96bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

2048

20

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.68 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

63.36 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.055 TFLOPS

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.055 TFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

63.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

GA107

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

Unknown

56 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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