GeForce RTX 3050

GeForce RTX 3050
  • Graphics Processor: GA106
  • Cores: 2560
  • TMUs / ROPs: 80 / 32

Review

Gaming
22
Workstation
29
AI/ML
22
Energy Efficiency
50
NanoReview Final Score
25
Compare GeForce RTX 3050 with other GPUs

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
92
53
43
26
The Witcher 3
90
70
49
24
Counter-Strike 2
139
101
72
31
Far Cry 6
76
66
49
25
Hogwarts Legacy
49
38
30
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
59
49
35
22
Ghost of Tsushima
46
35
28
15
Cyberpunk 2077
48
45
26
11
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
80
73
49
25
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 75
1080p Ultra 59
1440p Ultra 42
4K Ultra 21
Margin of Error Low

Test in Benchmarks

Performance tests in graphics benchmarks and applications

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
6348
Time Spy 6235
Solar Bay 30191
Port Royal 3546
Fire Strike 15967
Wild Life Extreme 12795
Night Raid 74854
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
67028
Background Blur 110.4 img/sec
Face Detection 64.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.87 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.76 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.89 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.81 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 270.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 9339.7 FPS
API OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

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

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
12471
G2D Mark 916
DirectX 11 90 FPS
DirectX 12 59 FPS
GPU Compute 6415 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 9379 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
1462.18
Sources: Blender [9] – 1092 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
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
11848
GB6 ML Half Precision
21368
GB6 ML Quantized
7905
Image Classification (SP) 4958
Image Segmentation (HP) 12747
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9816
Face Detection (HP) 22467
Pose Estimation (Q) 41362
Text Classification (SP) 2563
Machine Translation (HP) 3721
Object Detection (SP) 5929
Depth Estimation (Q) 18361
Style Transfer (SP) 84665
Framework ONNX
Backend DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Detailed technical specifications of the GeForce RTX 3050

General

Vendor Nvidia
Build Discrete
Released January 27, 2022
Launch price (MSRP) $249
Case Desktop
Purpose Gaming
Segment Entry-level
Architecture Ampere
GPU Codename GA106
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12400 or above
Desktop GPU rating - 71st place

Graphics Processing Unit

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

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 57 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 142 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
9.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 130 W
Manufacturing Samsung
Fabrication Process 8 nm
Die Size 276 mm²
Transistor Count 12 billion
Transistor Density 43.48 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit
ECC No
Memory Bandwidth
224 GB/s

API

DirectX 12
Vulkan 1.3
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 3.0
CUDA 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes
DLSS DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a

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ThePenetrator July 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Are you guys planning to add the desktop 3050 6 gig? If so, then for everyone's sake, please name it the rtx 3040. The 3050 6 gig is not a 3050 8 gig with 2 gig less VRAM. It's a completely different card so, it deserves a completely different name as well. Also, the laptop 3050 6 gig is missing too. It's also not the same card as the laptop 3050 4 gig.
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