NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 3050 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 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 graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 75 Watt.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	234
Place by popularity	45
Power efficiency	21.91	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GA107
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	11 May 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce RTX 3050 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 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	712 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1057 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	67.65	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	4.329 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	40	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	64	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores	64	of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores	16	of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 3050 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	large
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 3050 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	1500 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile. 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

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.6
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	3.0
Vulkan	1.2
CUDA	8.6

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 3050 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 Mobile 23.64

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 Mobile 9122

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 Mobile 21358

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 Mobile 77234

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 Mobile 15685

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 Mobile 90224

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 Mobile 580370

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 3050 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	92
1440p	51
4K	33

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

106

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	50−55
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	75
Battlefield 5	75−80
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	45−50
Cyberpunk 2077	83
Far Cry 5	55−60
Far Cry New Dawn	60−65
Forza Horizon 4	140−150
Hitman 3	45−50
Horizon Zero Dawn	110−120
Metro Exodus	80−85
Red Dead Redemption 2	60−65
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	80−85
Watch Dogs: Legion	100−105

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	50−55
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	62
Battlefield 5	75−80
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	45−50
Cyberpunk 2077	61
Far Cry 5	55−60
Far Cry New Dawn	60−65
Forza Horizon 4	140−150
Hitman 3	45−50
Horizon Zero Dawn	110−120
Metro Exodus	80−85
Red Dead Redemption 2	60−65
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	123
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	50−55
Watch Dogs: Legion	100−105

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	50−55
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	53
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	45−50
Cyberpunk 2077	61
Far Cry 5	55−60
Forza Horizon 4	140−150
Hitman 3	45−50
Horizon Zero Dawn	107
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	106
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	65
Watch Dogs: Legion	71

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

60−65

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	40
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	27−30
Cyberpunk 2077	30
Far Cry 5	27−30
Forza Horizon 4	130−140
Hitman 3	27−30
Horizon Zero Dawn	78
Metro Exodus	69
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	78
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	27−30
Watch Dogs: Legion	130−140

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

35−40

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	21−24
Far Cry New Dawn	18−20
Hitman 3	34
Horizon Zero Dawn	120−130
Metro Exodus	24−27
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	44

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	14−16
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	24
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	12
Far Cry 5	12−14
Forza Horizon 4	30−35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	45
Watch Dogs: Legion	19

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

21−24

Closest competitors

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

Arc A550M 103.68

GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile 103.51

GeForce GTX 970M SLI 103.13

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 100

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 96.66

Radeon RX 5600M 96.45

GeForce GTX 880M SLI 91.58

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile is Radeon RX 5600M, which is slower by 4% and lower by 10 positions in our ranking.