NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile sales 11 May 2021. This is a laptop graphics card based on an Ampere architecture and made with 8 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 12 GHz are supplied.

Power consumption is at 60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP).

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 24.82% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking	200
Place by popularity	54
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name	GN20-P0
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	11 May 2021 (2 years old)

Technical specs

GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2048	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	1238 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1500 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size

large

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile: 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	4 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Shared memory	-

API support

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

DirectX

12_2

Benchmark performance

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

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance 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 4GB Mobile 24.82

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile 43216

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile 15725

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile 12229

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile 65911

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile 480364

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile 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.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD	64
1440p	44
4K	26

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	45−50
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	58
Battlefield 5	93
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	65−70
Cyberpunk 2077	52
Far Cry 5	68
Far Cry New Dawn	83
Forza Horizon 4	80−85
Hitman 3	102
Horizon Zero Dawn	75
Red Dead Redemption 2	40−45
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	71
Watch Dogs: Legion	66

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	45−50
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	32
Battlefield 5	89
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	65−70
Cyberpunk 2077	41
Far Cry 5	64
Far Cry New Dawn	77
Forza Horizon 4	80−85
Hitman 3	71
Horizon Zero Dawn	59
Metro Exodus	49
Red Dead Redemption 2	40−45
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	61
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	81
Watch Dogs: Legion	57

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	45−50
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	24
Battlefield 5	83
Cyberpunk 2077	34
Far Cry 5	61
Far Cry New Dawn	66
Forza Horizon 4	80−85
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	46
Watch Dogs: Legion	26

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	35−40
Hitman 3	44
Horizon Zero Dawn	46
Metro Exodus	29
Red Dead Redemption 2	18−20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	42

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	27−30
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	22
Battlefield 5	66
Cyberpunk 2077	18
Far Cry 5	49
Far Cry New Dawn	52
Forza Horizon 4	50−55
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	30−33
Watch Dogs: Legion	19

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	18−20
Hitman 3	21
Horizon Zero Dawn	16−18
Metro Exodus	17
Red Dead Redemption 2	12−14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	23
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	29

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	16−18
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	14−16
Battlefield 5	35
Cyberpunk 2077	6
Far Cry 5	19
Far Cry New Dawn	24−27
Forza Horizon 4	35−40
Watch Dogs: Legion	10−12

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 101.85

GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile 100.64

GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile 100.64

GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile 100

GeForce GTX 980M SLI 99.4

GeForce GTX 970M SLI 97.5

Arc A550M 95.41

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile is Radeon RX 6550M, which is slower by 7% and lower by 23 positions in our ranking.