NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Price

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$ 1549.99

$ 249.99

$ 1300.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14028 points

150% significantly better overall score

5591 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

332 FPS

197 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

135 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

103 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

240 FPS

145 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

95 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

52 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

760% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2317 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

102% significantly higher Blender score

2880.41 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

97092 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

91845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

2317 MHz

65% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

2572 MHz

51% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

192% significantly higher memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

130 W

169% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

130% significantly higher pixel rate

82.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

170% significantly higher texture rate

205.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

309% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

309% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th of 597

91st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2025 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs GeForce RTX 5050 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5050 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5050 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 5050 also has a significantly 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 5050 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3090 is faster than the GeForce RTX 5050.