GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh vs UHD Graphics (Elkhart Lake 16 EU)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1095not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.20no data
Architectureno dataAmpere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGen. 11GA107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date11 January 2021 (3 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 cores162048
Core clock speed250 MHz1237 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHz1492 MHz
Manufacturing process technology10 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)4.8 - 10 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data95.49
Floating-point processing powerno data6.111 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

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 data6 GB
Memory bus widthno data96 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

Supported technologies

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

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 January 2021 6 July 2022
Chip lithography 10 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 4 Watt 75 Watt

UHD Graphics (Elkhart Lake 16 EU) has 1775% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between UHD Graphics (Elkhart Lake 16 EU) and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that UHD Graphics (Elkhart Lake 16 EU) is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh is a notebook one.


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