GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh vs UHD Graphics 48EU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGeneration 12.2 (2022−2023)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameAlder Lake GT1GA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 January 2022 (2 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 cores3842048
Core clock speed300 MHz622 MHz
Boost clock speed1150 MHz990 MHz
Manufacturing process technology10 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate27.6063.36
Floating-point processing power0.8832 TFLOPS4.055 TFLOPS
ROPs1232
TMUs2464
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).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared6 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared96 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data144.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2022 6 July 2022
Chip lithography 10 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 75 Watt

UHD Graphics 48EU has 66.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 months, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between UHD Graphics 48EU and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.


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