GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile vs Radeon Instinct MI50

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated212
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data29.07
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega 20GN20-P0-R 6 GB
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date18 November 2018 (6 years ago)6 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores38402560
Core clock speed1200 MHz1237 MHz
Boost clock speed1746 MHz1492 MHz
Number of transistors13,230 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate419.0no data
Floating-point processing power13.41 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs240no data

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 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno 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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB6 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz12000 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.02 TB/sno data
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 Connectors1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4ano data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12_2
Shader Model6.7no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.1no data
Vulkan1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 November 2018 6 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 60 Watt

Instinct MI50 has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 3050 6GB Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Instinct MI50 and GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Instinct MI50 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon Instinct MI50
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile
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