NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 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 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3468 points

4256 points

22% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

83 FPS

103 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

53 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

59 FPS

75 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

31 FPS

41 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

41 FPS

52 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

69 FPS

85 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher Fortnite FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

83 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

72 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

42 FPS

49 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher God of War FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

49 FPS

51 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1484.67 points

2581.07 points

73% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

63483 points

75551 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62406 points

75827 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1552 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

1455 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1755 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

96 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

50 W

160% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.86 Gigapixels/s

1% slightly higher pixel rate

56.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

1% slightly higher texture rate

140.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.10 TFLOPS

1% slightly better floating point performance

8.99 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

Identical

2560

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

139th of 590

119th of 590

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2023 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 4050 Laptop benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3050 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 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 4050 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 3050.