NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M270

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated214
Place by popularitynot in top-10047
ArchitectureGCN (2011−2017)Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code nameno dataAmpere GA106
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 April 2014 (9 years old)4 January 2022 (2 years old)

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6402560
Core clock speed725 MHz1552 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1777 MHz
Number of transistors1500 Millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data130 Watt
Texture fill rateno data102.0

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon R9 M270 and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargelarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16

Memory

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed4500 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data224.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX12 (FL 11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkanno data1.2
CUDAno data8.6

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 1 April 2014 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm

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