GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 17.51% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB sales 27 January 2022 at a recommended price of $199 . 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. 4 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 192.0 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 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 90 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking308
Place by popularity26
Cost-effectiveness evaluation36.49
Power efficiency14.05of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA107
Market segmentDesktop
Release date27 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

GeForce RTX 3050 4 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 4 GB's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2048of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed1545 MHzof 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Boost clock speed1740 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors8,700 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology8 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)90 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate111.4of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power7.127 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs64of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores64of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores16of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 3050 4 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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8
Length242 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 3050 4 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 typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1500 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 3050 4 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI+

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.7
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3
CUDA8.6

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RTX 3050 4 GB 17.51

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.

RTX 3050 4 GB 6757

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


Radeon 780M 104.34
Radeon RX 570 103.08
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB is Radeon R9 285, which is slower by 1% and lower by 3 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB:

Radeon 780M 104.34
Radeon RX 570 103.08
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 100
Radeon 660M 93.03

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