NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 4 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 965M

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2624 points

162% significantly better overall score

1001 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

687% significantly higher Blender score

147.61 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

58544 points

322% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13861 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55123 points

234% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16496 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47251 points

186% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16483 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

222% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15820 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

219% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16599 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

31% slightly higher core clock speed

944 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

30% slightly higher boost clock speed

1150 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 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

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

60 W

25% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s

36.8 Gigapixels/s

8% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

73.6 Gigatexels/s

8% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.33 TFLOPS

83% significantly better floating point performance

2.36 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

100% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

173rd of 597

270th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs GeForce GTX 965M specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 965M in our tests.

In our comparison, 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 965M has a slightly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 965M.