GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop vs 3050 Laptop
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We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile 8 GB with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 4 years and 6 months older RTX 3050 Mobile 4 GB that utilizes 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
- Performs significantly better (up to 92%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 78% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 57 vs 32 FPS
- 92% higher maximum theoretical performance (13.6 vs 7.1 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 112 68 59 40 |
75 44 34 21 |
| The Witcher 3 | 124 98 70 39 |
68 53 38 20 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 177 133 94 46 |
115 80 54 23 |
| Far Cry 6 | 91 81 66 33 |
60 52 40 17 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 66 56 37 18 |
37 28 23 12 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 81 71 52 31 |
48 37 27 16 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 62 49 34 20 |
37 28 18 10 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 68 63 38 16 |
36 35 19 - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 106 95 67 38 |
66 62 39 18 |
| 1080p High | 99 | 60 |
| 1080p Ultra | 79 | 47 |
| 1440p Ultra | 57 | 32 |
| 4K Ultra | 31 | 16 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 9488 | 4884 |
| Solar Bay | 42180 | 21596 |
| Port Royal | 5747 | 552 |
| Fire Strike | 25440 | 12571 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 17748 | 9400 |
| Night Raid | 90582 | 53685 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 154.5 img/sec | 88.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 94.6 img/sec | 57.3 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.36 Gpixels/sec | 2.53 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 4.21 Gpixels/sec | 3.33 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 4.26 Gpixels/sec | 2.55 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.07 Gpixels/sec | 0.76 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 414.3 Gpixels/sec | 256.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 13519.1 FPS | 7465.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 738 | 493 |
| DirectX 11 | 127 FPS | 71 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 65 FPS | 46 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 5055 Ops/s | 3868 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-09-04 (Pavan) | Cinebench 2024 | 28696 |
| 📘 2026-08-03 -> Alterac | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 95756 |
| 📘 2026-07-20 (lasu) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 100032 |
| 📘 2026-05-27 (Fynni) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 92318 |
GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-08-31 (bobschieffer) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 61418 |
| 📘 2026-08-29 (bobschieffer) | Cinebench 2024 | 3654 |
| 📘 2026-08-13 -> Kushagra_Aggarwal | Steel Nomad Light | 5735 |
| 📘 2026-01-26 (rar) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 68364 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 6724 | 4349 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 20455 | 11416 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 17332 | 8973 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 37078 | 18927 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 68680 | 34631 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2764 | 2269 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 5076 | 3539 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 8520 | 5046 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 32304 | 15772 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 110367 | 75260 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop and 3050 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | June 24, 2025 | January 1, 2021 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | GB207 | GA107 |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX or above | - |
Laptop GPU ranking (41st and 93rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1020-1500 MHz (configurable) | 712-1530 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 1500-2662 MHz (configurable) | 1057-1740 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 2048 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 80 | 64 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 40 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 20 | 16 |
| Tensor Cores | 80 | 64 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 20 | 16 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 32MB shared | 2MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 48-85 GPixel/s | 42-70 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 120-213 GTexel/s | 68-111 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 35-115 W (configurable) | 35-95 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 149 mm² | 200 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 16.9 billion | 8.7 billion |
| Transistor Density | 113.42 MTr/mm² | 43.5 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 24000 Mbps | 12000 Mbps |
| Bus | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 12.0 | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 4 | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1b | 1.4a |
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