GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 30.27% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
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Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB sales 4 January 2022 at a recommended price of $249. This is a desktop graphics card based on an Ampere architecture and made with 8 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 8 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x8 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 242 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 130 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 211 | |
| Place by popularity | 15 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 52.43 | |
| Power efficiency | 18.00 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020−2025) | |
| GPU code name | GA106 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 4 January 2022 (4 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $249 | of 34,999 (B200 SXM6) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.
Performance to price scatter graph
Currently popular graphics cards are shown for comparison.
Detailed specifications
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2560 | of 57344 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Core clock speed | 1552 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1777 MHz | of 3130 MHz (Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB) |
| Number of transistors | 12,000 million | of 670,000 million (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm | of 2 nm (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 130 Watt | of 3600 Watt (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Texture fill rate | 142.2 | of 4,062.5 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Floating-point processing power | 9.098 TFLOPS | of 260 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 80 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Tensor Cores | 80 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 20 | of 188 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| L1 Cache | 2.5 MB | of 112 MB (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L2 Cache | 2 MB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | |
| Length | 242 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 432 GB (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 32768 Bit (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Memory clock speed | 1750 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 224.0 GB/s | of 3,277 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Resizable BAR | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a | |
| HDMI | + |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | |
| CUDA | 8.6 | |
| DLSS | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB is Radeon RX 5600 OEM, which is slower by 2% and lower by 9 positions in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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