Intel UHD Graphics (64 EU) vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Intel UHD Graphics (64 EU) with 64 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 1 year older GeForce 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

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

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3050 Mobile over UHD Graphics (64 EU)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 6.8x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 6.4x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 32 vs 5 FPS
  • 4.7x higher maximum theoretical performance (7.1 vs 1.5 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 4 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 8 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 16 dedicated RT cores

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
18
-
-
-
75
44
34
21
The Witcher 3
11
9
-
-
68
53
38
20
Counter-Strike 2
18
10
9
-
115
80
54
23
Far Cry 6
11
-
-
-
60
52
40
17
Hogwarts Legacy
-
-
-
-
37
28
23
12
CoD: Modern Warfare III
12
10
-
-
48
37
27
16
Ghost of Tsushima
10
-
-
-
37
28
18
10
Cyberpunk 2077 -
36
35
19
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
11
10
-
-
66
62
39
18
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 12 60
1080p Ultra - 47
1440p Ultra - 32
4K Ultra - 16
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
Time Spy 1016 4884
Solar Bay - 21596
Port Royal - 552
Fire Strike 3342 12571
Wild Life Extreme 2378 9400
Night Raid 13315 53685
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 27.6 img/sec 88.6 img/sec
Face Detection 19.2 img/sec 57.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.52 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.76 Gpixels/sec 3.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.37 Gpixels/sec 2.55 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.14 Gpixels/sec 0.76 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 33 Gpixels/sec 256.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 2055.2 FPS 7465.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark - 493
DirectX 11 - 71 FPS
DirectX 12 - 46 FPS
GPU Compute - 3868 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 20037 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 1497 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel UHD Graphics (64 EU)
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-31 (bobschieffer)Geekbench 6 OpenCL61418
📘 2026-08-29 (bobschieffer)Cinebench 20243654
📘 2026-08-13 -> Kushagra_AggarwalSteel Nomad Light5735
📘 2026-01-26 (rar)Geekbench 6 OpenCL68364

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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 1170 4349
Image Segmentation (HP) 1951 11416
Image Super Resolution (Q) 1359 8973
Face Detection (HP) 2991 18927
Pose Estimation (Q) 5311 34631
Text Classification (SP) 984 2269
Machine Translation (HP) 1138 3539
Object Detection (SP) 1273 5046
Depth Estimation (Q) 3655 15772
Style Transfer (SP) 19706 75260
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel UHD Graphics (64 EU) and GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

General

Vendor Intel Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Released January 4, 2022 January 1, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Gaming
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Xe architecture (Gen12) Ampere
GPU Codename Alder Lake GT1 GA107
Rival Equivalent - Radeon 660M -
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i3 1215U or above -
Used in CPUs - Intel Core 7 240H
- Intel Core 3 100U
- Intel Core i3 1305U
- Intel Core i3 1315U
- Intel Core i7 13620H
- Intel Core i3 1220P
- Intel Core i3 1215U
- Intel Core i7 12650H
-
Laptop GPU ranking (132nd and 93rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 712-1530 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 850-1500 MHz (configurable) 1057-1740 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 512 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 40
Compute Units (Pipelines) 64 16
Tensor Cores No 64
Ray-tracing Cores No 16
L1 Cache - 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 14-24 GPixel/s 42-70 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 27-48 GTexel/s 68-111 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.9-1.5 TFLOPS
4.3-7.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 15 W 35-95 W (configurable)
Manufacturing Intel Samsung
Fabrication Process 10 nm 8 nm
Die Size - 200 mm²
Transistor Count - 8.7 billion
Transistor Density - 43.5 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type System Shared GDDR6
Memory Size - 4 GB
Memory Clock - 1500 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 12000 Mbps
Bus - 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA - 8.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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