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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2615 points
38% 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
14 FPS slightly 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

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points
66% significantly higher Blender score
697.32 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
40962 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

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

64
Identical
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
Identical
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

170th of 586
216th of 586

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
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 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is faster than the RTX A500 Laptop.

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