GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh vs Radeon HD 8250

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1268not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.86no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Ampere (2020−2025)
GPU code nameKalindiGA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date23 May 2013 (12 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 cores1282048
Core clock speed300 MHz622 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHz990 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)8 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate3.20063.36
Floating-point processing power0.1024 TFLOPS4.055 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs864
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared6 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared96 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data144.0 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 outputsNo outputs

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 May 2013 6 July 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 8 Watt 75 Watt

HD 8250 has 837.5% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8250 and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

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AMD Radeon HD 8250
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