NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2615 points

811% significantly better overall score

287 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

2282% significantly higher Blender score

48.76 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

58544 points

1587% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

3469 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55123 points

1069% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4712 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47251 points

1000% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4293 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

1021% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4552 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

1010% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4783 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

1058 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192 GB/s

139% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

64 W

17% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s

299% significantly higher pixel rate

8.46 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

99% significantly higher texture rate

33.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

433% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

170th of 586

384th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs GeForce GTX 650 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 650 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 650.