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 21.47% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

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 ranking268
Place by popularity25
Cost-effectiveness evaluation48.65
Power efficiency19.20of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2025)
GPU code nameGA107
Market segmentDesktop
Release date27 January 2022 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

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 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1545 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed1740 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors8,700 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology8 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)90 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate111.4of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power7.127 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs32of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs64of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
Tensor Cores64of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
Ray Tracing Cores16of 188 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
L1 Cache2 MBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache2 MBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed1500 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)
Resizable BAR+

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 and SDK support

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
DLSS+

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.

RTX 3050 4 GB
21.47

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 Samples: 12432 9494

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.


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AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB is Radeon R9 Fury, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.

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

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Community ratings

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