NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 229.99
$ 168.70
$ 61.29 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3468 points
580% significantly better overall score
510 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS
69 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

59 FPS
50 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

31 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6224 points
606% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
881 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1484.67 points
1860% significantly higher Blender score
75.74 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

72998 points
1073% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
6223 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71667 points
786% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
8083 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56109 points
621% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
7772 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

63483 points
694% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
7995 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62406 points
656% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
8246 points

Specifications

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

224 GB/s
159% significantly higher memory bandwidth
86.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W
110 W
18% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.86 Gigapixels/s
282% significantly higher pixel rate
14.85 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s
139% significantly higher texture rate
59.39 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
233% significantly more shading units
768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

80
25% slightly more texture mapping units
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
100% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

139th of 586
327th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5

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 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 beats the GeForce GTX 650 Ti in gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 is better than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti.

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