NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250, 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 MX250

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2615 points

308% significantly better overall score

640 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

1194% significantly higher Blender score

89.74 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

58544 points

501% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

9734 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55123 points

440% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10197 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47251 points

375% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9939 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

447% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9326 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

478% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9178 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

937 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

1038 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192 GB/s

299% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

10 W

650% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s

103% significantly higher pixel rate

16.61 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

171% significantly higher texture rate

24.91 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

166% 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

302nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2019 February

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

GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs GeForce MX250 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce MX250 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is better than the GeForce MX250.