NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1125MHz vs 1077MHz)

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB

4.608 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 Mobile +7%

4.963 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB

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Radeon RX 480 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

757 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1125 MHz

Boost Clock

1077 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

2048

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

36.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

34.46 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.1 GTexel/s

4.608 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.963 TFLOPS

4.608 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.963 TFLOPS

72.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

310.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Ellesmere

-

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XT

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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