NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3236 points

42789 points

1222% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

79 FPS

1019 FPS

941 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

503 FPS

462 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

57 FPS

740 FPS

683 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

31 FPS

425 FPS

394 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1333.84 points

14992.38 points

1023% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

58669 points

383325 points

553% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55976 points

380401 points

579% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1222 MHz

2017 MHz

65% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1485 MHz

2407 MHz

62% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

32 GiB

700% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

512 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

666% significantly lower TDP

575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.12 Gigapixels/s

423.6 Gigapixels/s

1178% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

21760

749% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

680

749% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

176

450% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

144th of 586

1st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2025 January

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 Ti Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5090 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5090 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 5090 has significantly more memory with 32 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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