RTX A2000 Mobile vs GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated211
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data18.54
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA107GA106
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date11 May 2021 (3 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 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 cores20482560
Core clock speed712 MHz893 MHz
Boost clock speed1057 MHz1358 MHz
Number of transistorsno data13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt95 Watt
Texture fill rate67.65108.6
Floating-point processing power4.329 TFLOPS6.953 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs6480
Tensor Cores6480
Ray Tracing Cores1620

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 speed1375 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth176.0 GB/s176.0 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.2
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 95 Watt

RTX 3050 Max-Q has 171.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q and RTX A2000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q is a notebook graphics card while RTX A2000 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q
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NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile
RTX A2000 Mobile

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