GeForce GTX 1650 TU116 vs RTX 3050 4GB Mobile

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking224not rated
Place by popularity60not in top-100
Power efficiency28.19no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGN20-P0TU116
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date11 May 2021 (3 years ago)7 July 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2048896
Core clock speed1238 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1590 MHz
Number of transistorsno data6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)80 Watt
Texture fill rateno data89.04
Floating-point processing powerno data2.849 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data56

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data229 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed12000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_212 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 May 2021 7 July 2020
Chip lithography 8 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 80 Watt

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile has an age advantage of 10 months, a 50% more advanced lithography process, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile and GeForce GTX 1650 TU116. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 1650 TU116 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile
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