NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 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

3468 points
4766 points
37% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS
101 FPS
19 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS
63 FPS
22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

59 FPS
89 FPS
30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

31 FPS
48 FPS
17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1484.67 points
2969.98 points
100% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

63483 points
85838 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62406 points
80080 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1552 MHz
52% significantly higher core clock speed
1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
18% slightly higher boost clock speed
1500 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
384 GB/s
71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

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
18% slightly higher pixel rate
48 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s
18% slightly higher texture rate
120 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
Identical
2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

80
Identical
80

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
Identical
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

139th of 586
107th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January
2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

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 RTX 5050 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 in our tests.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050.

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