NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Price

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$ 349.99

$ 229.99

$ 120.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4831 points

39% slightly better overall score

3468 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

106 FPS

24 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

82 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

66 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

74 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

59 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

50 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

31 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

227 FPS

158 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

69 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

102 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

83 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

54 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

49 FPS

Days Gone FPS

Very High settings at 1080p

73 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Days Gone FPS

62 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

High settings at 1080p

70 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

48 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7528 points

20% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

6224 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1636.29 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

1484.67 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

78091 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

72998 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

70754 points

71667 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60775 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

56109 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76744 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

63483 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72572 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

62406 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1365 MHz

1552 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1680 MHz

1777 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

130 W

23% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

80.64 Gigapixels/s

41% slightly higher pixel rate

56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.6 Gigatexels/s

41% slightly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

41% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2560

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

105th of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce RTX 3050 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3050 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3050 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a slightly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2060 at 160 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2060 is better than the GeForce RTX 3050.

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