RTX A500 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 rated311
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.05
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA107GA107S
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date11 May 2021 (3 years ago)22 March 2022 (2 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 cores20482048
Core clock speed712 MHz832 MHz
Boost clock speed1057 MHz1537 MHz
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate67.6598.37
Floating-point processing power4.329 TFLOPS6.296 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs6464
Tensor Cores6464
Ray Tracing Cores1616

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).

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 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth176.0 GB/s96 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
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 May 2021 22 March 2022
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 60 Watt

RTX 3050 Max-Q has 71.4% lower power consumption.

RTX A500 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 months.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q and RTX A500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q is a notebook graphics card while RTX A500 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q
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NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
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