Intel Arc A750 vs GeForce RTX 3050

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Intel Arc A750 with 3584 shaders against the 1 year and 9 months older GeForce RTX 3050 that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
8 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
75.3
(Good)
Value Index
47.6
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3050 over Arc A750
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A750
  • Performs significantly better (up to 71%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 89% higher maximum theoretical performance (17.2 vs 9.1 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 40% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 59 vs 42 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • Features 368 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 2.3x higher memory bandwidth: 512 vs 224 GB/s
  • Achieves 48% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (99K vs 67K)
  • Has 40% more shading units (3584 vs 2560)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
113
68
57
43
92
53
43
26
The Witcher 3
130
114
81
41
90
70
49
24
Counter-Strike 2
149
108
78
40
139
101
72
31
Far Cry 6
97
87
68
35
76
66
49
25
Hogwarts Legacy
63
50
40
23
49
38
30
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
71
69
47
27
59
49
35
22
Ghost of Tsushima
67
51
41
20
46
35
28
15
Cyberpunk 2077
78
69
47
22
48
45
26
11
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
110
98
72
42
80
73
49
25
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 98 75
1080p Ultra 79 59
1440p Ultra 59 42
4K Ultra 33 21
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Arc A750 +71%
10848
6348
Time Spy 12423 6235
Solar Bay 45821 30191
Port Royal 6594 3546
Fire Strike 30403 15967
Wild Life Extreme 23688 12795
Night Raid 110746 74854
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Arc A750 +48%
99280
67028
Background Blur 145.2 img/sec 110.4 img/sec
Face Detection 82 img/sec 64.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.35 Gpixels/sec 2.87 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 5.01 Gpixels/sec 3.76 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7.59 Gpixels/sec 2.89 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.81 Gpixels/sec 0.81 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 462.4 Gpixels/sec 270.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 18623.1 FPS 9339.7 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
n/a
4722

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
Arc A750 +1%
12646
12471
G2D Mark 738 916
DirectX 11 73 FPS 90 FPS
DirectX 12 70 FPS 59 FPS
GPU Compute 5297 Ops/s 6415 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 1834 & 9379 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Arc A750 +40%
2041.57
1462.18
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 689 & 1092 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Arc A750
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3050
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitryCinebench 20244722
📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitrySteel Nomad Light6237

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
Arc A750 +3%
12178
11848
GB6 ML Half Precision
12796
RTX 3050 +67%
21368
GB6 ML Quantized
Arc A750 +15%
9086
7905
Image Classification (SP) 5475 4958
Image Segmentation (HP) 13781 12747
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11612 9816
Face Detection (HP) 18556 22467
Pose Estimation (Q) 58801 41362
Text Classification (SP) 824 2563
Machine Translation (HP) 2397 3721
Object Detection (SP) 6895 5929
Depth Estimation (Q) 22219 18361
Style Transfer (SP) 161148 84665
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Arc A750 and GeForce RTX 3050

General

Vendor Intel Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released October 12, 2023 January 27, 2022
Launch price (MSRP) $289 $249
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture Generation 12.7 Ampere
GPU Codename DG2-512 GA106
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3050 -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12500 or above - Intel Core i5 12400 or above
Desktop GPU rating (59th and 71st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 2050 MHz 1552 MHz
Boost Clock 2400 MHz 1777 MHz
Shading Units 3584 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 224 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 20
Tensor Cores 448 80
Ray-tracing Cores 28 20
L1 Cache - 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 16MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 269 GPixel/s 57 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 538 GTexel/s 142 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Arc A750 +89%
17.2 TFLOPS
9.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 225 W 130 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 6 nm 8 nm
Die Size 406 mm² 276 mm²
Transistor Count 21 billion 12 billion
Transistor Density 51.72 MTr/mm² 43.48 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
Arc A750 +129%
512 GB/s
224 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA - 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2
DisplayPort 2.0 1.4a

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