GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q vs Radeon R4 (Beema)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1152not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.1 (2014)Ampere (2020−2025)
GPU code nameBeemaGA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date29 April 2014 (11 years ago)11 May 2021 (4 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 speed800 MHz712 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1057 MHz
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data67.65
Floating-point processing powerno data4.329 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1375 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data176.0 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 dataNo outputs

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 April 2014 11 May 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm

RTX 3050 Max-Q has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

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