Radeon 520 Mobile DDR3 and GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB - video card comparison

Radeon 520 Mobile DDR3

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Banks

GA107

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

February 2024

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1470 MHz

Core clock speed

1030 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

690 million

8,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

70 Watt

Texture fill rate

20.60

105.8

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

2 GB/s

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

16 GB/s

168.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.3