NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2624 points
3468 points
32% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS
83 FPS
19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS
41 FPS
9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS
59 FPS
14 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS
31 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Apex Legends FPS

Apex Legends FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

113 FPS
177 FPS
64 FPS significantly higher Apex Legends FPS
Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

63 FPS
87 FPS
24 FPS significantly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS
Fortnite FPS

Fortnite FPS

Low settings at 1080p

239 FPS
287 FPS
48 FPS slightly higher Fortnite FPS

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points
1484.67 points
27% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

58544 points
72998 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55123 points
71667 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47251 points
56109 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points
63483 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points
62406 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz
1552 MHz
25% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz
1777 MHz
18% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
8 GiB
100% significantly more memory

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
224 GB/s
16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
73% significantly lower TDP
130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s
56.86 Gigapixels/s
68% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s
142.2 Gigatexels/s
110% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.33 TFLOPS
9.10 TFLOPS
110% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
2560
25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
80
25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
Identical
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

171st of 590
139th of 590

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May
2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 3050 specs and performance

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

The GeForce RTX 3050 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 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3050 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

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

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