NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce MX350

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX350, 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 MX350

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2615 points

184% significantly better overall score

918 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

21 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

14 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

11 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

1149% significantly higher Blender score

92.96 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

58544 points

365% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

12572 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55123 points

297% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

13872 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47251 points

240% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

13882 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

274% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

13618 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

300% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

13257 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

65% significantly higher core clock speed

747 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

60% significantly higher boost clock speed

937 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

242% significantly higher memory bandwidth

56.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

20 W

274% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s

125% significantly higher pixel rate

14.99 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

125% significantly higher texture rate

29.98 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.33 TFLOPS

130% significantly better floating point performance

1.88 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

220% significantly more shading units

640

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

269th 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 MX350 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce MX350 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop has a significantly 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 boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop over the GeForce MX350.