GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking958not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.43no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ampere (2020−2025)
GPU code nameBroadwayGA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (15 years ago)6 July 2022 (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 cores8002048
Core clock speed500 MHz757 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1125 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate20.0072.00
Floating-point processing power0.8 TFLOPS4.608 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4064
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16
L1 Cache80 KB2 MB
L2 Cache256 KB2 MB

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
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s176.0 GB/s
Shared memory--
Resizable BAR-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API and SDK support

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 6 July 2022
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 35 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5850 has 16.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 400% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

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