NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop

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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3468 points

10% slightly better overall score

3152 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

75 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

36 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

59 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

54 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

31 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

29 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1484.67 points

1508.43 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

63483 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

54544 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62406 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

57342 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1552 MHz

45% significantly higher core clock speed

1065 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

1343 MHz

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

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W

45 W

188% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.86 Gigapixels/s

32% slightly higher pixel rate

42.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

89% significantly higher texture rate

75.21 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

42% many more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

42% many more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

139th of 586

151st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

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 vs GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 beats the GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 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 3050 also 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 A Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop.