NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce MX330

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX330, 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 MX330

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2615 points

362% significantly better overall score

566 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

9 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 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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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

1494% significantly higher Blender score

72.87 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

58544 points

490% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

9906 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55123 points

426% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10474 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47251 points

371% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10022 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

384% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10544 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

487% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9041 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

1531 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

1594 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

242% significantly higher memory bandwidth

56.06 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

32% slightly higher pixel rate

25.5 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

76% significantly higher texture rate

38.26 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

317th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2020 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 MX330 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce MX330 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce MX330 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 MX330 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop over the GeForce MX330.