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).

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	224
Place by popularity	60
Power efficiency	28.35	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GN20-P0
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	11 May 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	1238 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1500 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Form factor & compatibility

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

Laptop size

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VRAM capacity and type

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 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Shared memory	-

API compatibility

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 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 24.47

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.

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile 15712

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.

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile 43216

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.

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile 11949

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.

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile 65252

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.

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile 480364

3DMark Time Spy Graphics

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile 4497

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	63
1440p	44
4K	29

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	55−60
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	58
Battlefield 5	80−85
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	50−55
Cyberpunk 2077	52
Far Cry 5	55−60
Far Cry New Dawn	65−70
Forza Horizon 4	140−150
Hitman 3	57
Horizon Zero Dawn	110−120
Metro Exodus	126
Red Dead Redemption 2	87
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	80−85
Watch Dogs: Legion	186

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	55−60
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	32
Battlefield 5	80−85
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	50−55
Cyberpunk 2077	41
Far Cry 5	55−60
Far Cry New Dawn	65−70
Forza Horizon 4	140−150
Hitman 3	55
Horizon Zero Dawn	110−120
Metro Exodus	95
Red Dead Redemption 2	63
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	94
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	50−55
Watch Dogs: Legion	180

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	55−60
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	24
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	50−55
Cyberpunk 2077	34
Far Cry 5	55−60
Forza Horizon 4	140−150
Hitman 3	51
Horizon Zero Dawn	74
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	81
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	46
Watch Dogs: Legion	26

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	45−50
Far Cry New Dawn	35−40

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	24−27
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	22
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	27−30
Cyberpunk 2077	18
Far Cry 5	27−30
Forza Horizon 4	140−150
Hitman 3	37
Horizon Zero Dawn	59
Metro Exodus	52
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	56
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	30−35
Watch Dogs: Legion	166

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	24−27
Far Cry New Dawn	18−20
Hitman 3	15
Horizon Zero Dawn	120−130
Metro Exodus	37
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	29

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	14−16
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	12−14
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	14−16
Cyberpunk 2077	6
Far Cry 5	14−16
Forza Horizon 4	30−35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	34
Watch Dogs: Legion	10−12

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

Closest competitors

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

Radeon RX 6550M 102

GeForce GTX 980M SLI 100.45

Arc A550M 100.16

GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile 100

GeForce GTX 970M SLI 99.63

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 96.61

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 93.38

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile is Radeon RX 6550M, which is faster by 2% and higher by 10 positions in our ranking.