GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile vs Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile

Place in the ranking	198	339
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	53.94	24.08
Architecture	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	AD107	GA106
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Release date	26 February 2024 (less than a year ago)	2024 (recently)

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 cores	2048	1792
Core clock speed	1485 MHz	1065 MHz
Boost clock speed	2025 MHz	1343 MHz
Number of transistors	18,900 million	12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	45 Watt
Texture fill rate	129.6	75.21
Floating-point processing power	8.294 TFLOPS	4.813 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	64	56
Tensor Cores	64	56
Ray Tracing Cores	16	14

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 size	medium sized	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x8

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 type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	128.0 GB/s	192.0 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 Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.8	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
CUDA	8.9	8.6

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	27.26	15.65
Chip lithography	5 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	45 Watt

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile has a 74.2% higher aggregate performance score, a 60% more advanced lithography process, and 28.6% lower power consumption.

The RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile in performance tests.

Be aware that RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile is a mobile workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.