GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs Radeon Pro WX 7100

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	267	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	7.52	no data
Power efficiency	10.83	no data
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	Ellesmere	GA107
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	10 November 2016 (8 years ago)	6 July 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$799	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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	2304	2048
Core clock speed	1188 MHz	622 MHz
Boost clock speed	1243 MHz	990 MHz
Number of transistors	5,700 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	179.0	63.36
Floating-point processing power	5.728 TFLOPS	4.055 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	144	64
Tensor Cores	no data	64
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	16

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	241 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None

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	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	96 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	144.0 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

4x DisplayPort

Portable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.4	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	-	8.6

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	10 November 2016	6 July 2022
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	35 Watt

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