GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and T500 Max-Q - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

T500 Max-Q

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

GA107

TU117

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

January 2022

December 2020

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1740 MHz

1425 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

8,700 million

4,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

896

Power consumption (TDP)

90 Watt

18 Watt

Texture fill rate

111.4

79.80

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

12 GB/s

10 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

192.0 GB/s

80 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

8.6

7.5

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

6.7 (6.4)

Vulkan

1.3