GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking660not rated
Place by popularity38not in top-100
Power efficiency20.61no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeGA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date26 October 2017 (7 years ago)6 July 2022 (2 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 cores5122048
Core clock speed300 MHz757 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHz1125 MHz
Number of transistors9,800 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate57.6072.00
Floating-point processing power1.843 TFLOPS4.608 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs3264
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 connectorsNoneNone

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 Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1375 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data176.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 October 2017 6 July 2022
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 35 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) has 133.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB
GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB

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