NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A500 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 RTX A500 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2624 points

39% slightly better overall score

1882 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

49 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

33 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

66% significantly higher Blender score

697.32 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

40962 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

37410 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

48% significantly higher core clock speed

832 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

1537 MHz

2% 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

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s

49.18 Gigapixels/s

45% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

98.37 Gigatexels/s

45% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

Identical

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

173rd of 597

218th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2022 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs RTX A500 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop graphics card is better than the RTX A500 Laptop in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop has a significantly 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 RTX A500 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is better than the RTX A500 Laptop.