NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop, 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 RTX 5090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2615 points

16967 points

548% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

394 FPS

330 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

213 FPS

181 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

288 FPS

243 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS

163 FPS

139 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

7942.06 points

583% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

215096 points

321% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

191283 points

260% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

25% slightly higher core clock speed

990 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

1515 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192 GB/s

896 GB/s

366% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

26% slightly lower TDP

95 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s

169.7 Gigapixels/s

401% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

496.9 Gigatexels/s

634% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

10496

412% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

412% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

170th of 586

14th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop in gaming.

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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop has a slightly 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 addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop at 95 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop.