NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce MX250 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 2% higher boost clock speed: 1057 MHz vs 1038 MHz
5.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm

Launch date	11 May 2021 vs 21 February 2019
Boost clock speed	1057 MHz vs 1038 MHz
Pipelines	2048 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Around 32% higher core clock speed: 937 MHz vs 712 MHz
3.5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 35 Watt
4.4x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	937 MHz vs 712 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 35 Watt
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q	NVIDIA GeForce MX250
PassMark - G3D Mark		2392
PassMark - G2D Mark		240
Geekbench - OpenCL		9329
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		46.992
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		535.24
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		2.64
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		44.7
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		141.816
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4027
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4027
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		888

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q	NVIDIA GeForce MX250
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Pascal
Code name	GA107	GP108B
Launch date	11 May 2021	21 February 2019
Place in performance rating	not rated	861
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1057 MHz	1038 MHz
Core clock speed	712 MHz	937 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	67.65 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	4.329 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.329 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	384
Pixel fill rate	33.82 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	67.65 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	10 Watt
Transistor count		1,800 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	176.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective	6008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5