NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Price

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$ 284.17

$ 229.99

$ 54.18 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

52% significantly better overall score

3468 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

82 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

59 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

31 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Apex Legends FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

287 FPS

110 FPS significantly higher Apex Legends FPS

177 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

62 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

41 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

239 FPS

170 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

69 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

66 FPS

83 FPS

17 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

84 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS

42 FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

144 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS

87 FPS

Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

72 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

62 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

75 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

49 FPS

Valorant FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

287 FPS

105 FPS significantly higher Valorant FPS

182 FPS

Days Gone FPS

Very High settings at 1080p

89 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Days Gone FPS

62 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

40% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

6224 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

56% significantly higher Blender score

1484.67 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

72998 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

71667 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

56109 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

63483 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

62406 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

1552 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

Identical

1777 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

60% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

130 W

30% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

50% significantly higher pixel rate

56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

39% slightly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

40% slightly better floating point performance

9.10 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

40% slightly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

40% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

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 3060 vs GeForce RTX 3050 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 beats the GeForce RTX 3050 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a slightly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a slightly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050.

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