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RTX 3050

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Release date: Q1 2022.

Average Bench: 74.4% (98th of 715)

Based on 82,770 user benchmarks.  Devices: 10DE 2507, 10DE 2582 Model: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

The RTX 3050 is built on NVIDIA’s Ampere architecture. It marks the first time that ray-tracing has been available on an entry level (50-series) card. Second generation ray tracing cores can be switched on for more realistic light simulation, albeit at a hit to performance. The 3050 features 2560 CUDA cores, a boost clock frequency of 1.78 GHz, 8 GB of the latest GDDR6 memory and NVIDIA’s DLSS. DLSS technology uses the 3050’s tensor cores to scale up resolutions whilst maintaining high frame rates and without losing significant image quality. The 3050 also includes an encoder (NVENC) for sharper images and smoother capture whilst recording/streaming. The MRSP of entry models is $249 USD, however, street prices are closer to $600 USD. Early benchmarks show that the 3050 only headlines around 50% faster than AMD's 6500 XT whilst street prices for the 3050 are over 100% higher. Many experienced users simply have no interest in buying AMD cards, regardless of price. AMD’s neanderthal marketing tactics seem to have come back to haunt them. Their brazen domination of social media platforms including youtube and reddit resulted in millions of users purchasing sub standard products. Experienced gamers know all too well that high average fps are worthless when they are accompanied with stutters, random crashes, excessive noise and a limited feature set. [Jan '22 GPUPro]

Poor: 68%Average: 74.4% Great: 78%

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Good average bench

The Nvidia RTX 3050 averaged 25.6% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 101fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 65fps

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia RTX 3050 is just 10.2%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia RTX 3050 performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 87.6fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 89.9fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 82,770 samples)
Rank 9874.4%
Min Avg Max
92.5 Lighting 101 107
78.1 Reflection 87.6 117
81.4 Parallax 89.9 98.9
82.2% 92.8 fps
Min Avg Max
76.6 MRender 82.9 86.5
68.2 Gravity 72.6 76.2
60 Splatting 65 68.3
59.2% 73.5 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
MSI(1462 C978)
CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 546.29
76.9% Very good
Lighting 105
Reflection 120
Parallax 101
86% 108 fps
MRender 85.2
Gravity 72.5
Splatting 66.1
60% 74.6 fps
MSI(1462 C978)
CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 546.01
74.5% Very good
Lighting 100
Reflection 85.2
Parallax 89.9
82% 91.9 fps
MRender 84.1
Gravity 73.5
Splatting 65.9
60% 74.5 fps
MSI(1462 C978)
CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 560.70
73.3% Very good
Lighting 99
Reflection 83.8
Parallax 88.2
81% 90.3 fps
MRender 82.2
Gravity 72
Splatting 65.2
59% 73.1 fps
Zotac(19DA C630)
CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 556.12
72.8% Very good
Lighting 98.9
Reflection 82.7
Parallax 87.6
81% 89.7 fps
MRender 81.1
Gravity 70.6
Splatting 63.3
58% 71.7 fps
Asus(1043 8872)
CLim: 2190 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 556.12
66.6% Good
Lighting 93.7
Reflection 75.3
Parallax 80.5
76% 83.2 fps
MRender 63.2
Gravity 52.2
Splatting 59
48% 58.1 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 68,017,323 GPUs tested

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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (MSRP ≈ $250 @ launch in Jan '22)
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MSI(1462 8D9D) 15% 74% ± 2%
MSI(1462 C978) 9% 74% ± 2%
MSI RTX 3050 8GB Ventus 2X OC
V397-418R
EbayUS $28210 months
Asus(1043 887C) 9% 75% ± 3%
Asus RTX 3050 8GB Dual OC
‎DUAL-RTX3050-O8G
EbayUS $2667 mins
Gigabyte(1458 40AA) 8% 75% ± 3%
Gigabyte RTX 3050 8GB Gaming OC
‎GV-N3050GAMING OC-8GD
EbayUS $3146 mins
Zotac(19DA C630) 7% 74% ± 3%
Zotac RTX 3050 8GB Twin Edge OC
ZT-A30500H-10M
AmazonUS $2783 months
EbayUS $5006 mins
MSI(1462 C979) 5% 75% ± 3%
MSI RTX 3050 8GB Gaming X
V397-421R
EbayUS $4136 months
Nvidia(10DE 163D) 4% 75% ± 3%
Asus(1043 8890) 4% 75% ± 2%
Asus(1043 8876) 4% 75% ± 2%
Asus RTX 3050 8GB Phoenix
PH-RTX3050-8G
EbayUS $2557 mins
AmazonUS $28437 secs
Gigabyte(1458 40A9) 4% 73% ± 4%
Gigabyte RTX 3050 8GB Eagle OC
‎GV-N3050EAGLE OC-8GD
Nvidia(10DE 2507) 3% 73% ± 4%
EVGA(3842 3553) 3% 76% ± 3%
EVGA RTX 3050 8GB XC Gaming
08G-P5-3553-KR
EbayUS $2996 mins
AmazonUS $3791 month
Nvidia(10DE 2582) 3% 73% ± 3%
Gigabyte(1458 40B0) 2% 72% ± 3%
Zotac(19DA D630) 2% 74% ± 2%
Zotac(19DA 2641) 2% 74% ± 2%
MSI(1462 8E99) 2% 74% ± 4%
Nvidia(10DE 163E) 2% 73% ± 4%
PNY(196E 1397) 1% 73% ± 3%
Gigabyte(1458 40AB) 1% 71% ± 3%
Device(13A8 196E) 1% 75% ± 3%
MSI(1462 5001) 1% 75% ± 2%
Device(1771 163E) 1% 73% ± 3%
Gigabyte(1458 4101) 1% 75% ± 4%
PNY(196E 13E0) 1% 74% ± 4%
Device(7377 2000) 0% 74% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8891) 0% 74% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8872) 0% 79% ± 1%
Asus RTX 3050 8GB ROG Strix OC
ROG-STRIX-RTX3050-O8G-GAMING
EbayUS $45814 months
Gigabyte(1458 40B2) 0% 74% ± 2%
Asus(1043 8889) 0% 73% ± 9%
Asus(1043 8880) 0% 78% ± 3%
EVGA(3842 3551) 0% 73% ± 2%
Device(7377 150A) 0% 76% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 6301) 0% 71% ± 7%
Device(7377 1530) 0% 76% ± 0%
PNY(196E 1399) 0% 74% ± 0%
Device(7377 1501) 0% 76% ± 0%
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Gaming 69%
Battle cruiser
Desktop
Desktop 91%
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Workstation
Workstation 63%
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Motherboard: MSI H510M-A PRO (MS-7D22)

CPU
Core i5-10400FIntel  $95Bench 85%, 153,026 samples1,823x
Core i5-11400FIntel  $98Bench 94%, 46,609 samples1,362x
Core i3-10100FIntel  $69Bench 80%, 39,812 samples1,009x
GPU
RTX 3050Nvidia  $255Bench 74%, 82,770 samples1x
SSD
SNVS500G 500GBKingstonBench 186%, 34,043 samples348x
A400 240GBKingston  $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples213x
P2 3D NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBCrucial  $55Bench 166%, 55,360 samples156x
RAM
Group Inc TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBTeamBench 94%, 22,102 samples334x
KF3200C16D4/8GX 2x8GBKingstonBench 88%, 58,684 samples308x
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples286x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 81% - Excellent Total price: $350

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 Comments

GPUPro
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1,637

Official site www.nvidia.com/...

Added 2 years ago.
USA-User
Avatar level
9,918

Poor (edit your comment) Add link

1 hr ago.

Really good for budget and get 240 FPS in fortnite

RUS-User
Avatar level
4,804

Good

3 days ago.

Where is power? None in this card. Better to get a 2060 or 2060s

AUS-User
Avatar level
3,998

Good

26 days ago.

IT'S THE BEST GPU FOR BUDGET BUILDS

MEX-User
Avatar level
3,756

Good

4 months ago.

In my opinion I think that this rtx is very powerful

NLD-User
Avatar level
3,548

Excellent

16 days ago.

Its not even that fast if you want a gpu just pay 50 more euros to get the 4060 its way faster

CZE-User
Avatar level
3,366

Excellent

30 days ago.

GPU is running slower and more unstable than advertised.

KOR-User
Avatar level
3,222

Poor

11 days ago.

Would rather buy a 1660ti for less money

EGY-User
Avatar level
3,214

Excellent

11 days ago.

best graphics card , better than 1660 and is the same of rtx 2060 super

BGR-User
Avatar level
2,916

Poor

5 months ago.

This card is good for playing fortnite

ZAF-User
Avatar level
2,826

Good

16 days ago.

Very good gpu, works on ray tracing if you activate dlss on performance, does very well on almost every games.

PRT-User
Avatar level
2,676

Terrible

19 days ago.

i mean its not worth it just get the 3060

HRV-User
Avatar level
2,338

Excellent

4 months ago.

it runs games really great, maybe a bit overpriced for the performance it produces but its great

LTU-User
Avatar level
2,322

Poor

1 month ago.

Runs all game i throw at it at reasonable fps at 1080p

LKA-User
Avatar level
1,934

Poor

3 months ago.

gtx 1660s is much cheaper and valuable than this card

GEO-User
Avatar level
1,864

Excellent

22 days ago.

as proud owner of one its actually REALLY GOOD FOR ITS MONEY dlss is working pretty well and stuff and yah thanks for reading -Palit 3050 owner

BGD-User
Avatar level
1,834

Poor

18 days ago.

Why would you buy this? Glorified GTX 1660 lol

BIH-User
Avatar level
1,720

Good

8 months ago.

For 300€ graphic is good, play most games ultra/high settings at 1080p. Good alternetive is AMD RX 6600, or for little more money RX 6600 XT for 400€

GPUPro
Avatar level
1,637

Good

2 years ago.

ALB-User
Avatar level
1,292

Poor

3 days ago.

its just not good for the price

ECU-User
Avatar level
1,279

Excellent

4 months ago.

excelente relación costo beneficio

LBN-User
Avatar level
1,032

Poor

12 days ago.

1660 super is better for the same price

KWT-User
Avatar level
974

Good

8 days ago.

cheap and not good rtx not optimal fps

ISL-User
Avatar level
514

Poor

11 months ago.

it is a great card can play most new games at 1080p 60+

ZxOmenGuyxZ
Avatar level
74

Average

23 months ago.

It has great potential, but the RX 6600, which usually becomes cheaper or the same price as the RTX 3050's MSRP ($249.99) beats this GPU. It also doesn't help when it didn't beat the RTX 2060 and its super variant.

Ethernalside
Avatar level
42

Excellent

2 years ago.

the newest rtx 3000 gpu that comes with a great msrp of 250$ it gets much better performance than the new rx 6500xt that cost 50$ less gets supportet raytraycing and dlss

Sousinha
Avatar level
26

Terrible

18 months ago.

Poor power

zerbey
Avatar level
20

Good

1 month ago.

I was pleasantly shocked how well the so called entry level 3050 performed, it goes head to head with the 1660-Ti I was comparing it to. If you want ray tracing and 4K performance, look elsewhere, but for a decent and mid range card on a budget, it works out great.

Eurostarcz
Avatar level
16

Poor

2 years ago.

That bad

aren332
Avatar level
6

Terrible

16 months ago.

worst gpu ever, not worth it at all. Buy a 2060 super, its cheaper and faster, or even better buy like a rx 6600 xt or something

NBest17
Avatar level
6

Terrible

6 months ago.

bad value

gatedfuzz
Avatar level
4

Excellent

2 years ago.

for 329 in todays market, and the ability to overclock even further than the stock "xc" overclock by another 200-300mhz, this is a great replacement for any 2060 owner looking to sidestep into the world of 30 series cards

zomboni
Avatar level
4

Terrible

18 days ago.

"RTX 1670"

brokenblack
Avatar level
2

Good

2 years ago.

good value in a busted market

giobenchmarker
Avatar level
2

Excellent

2 years ago.

If you're coming from a crappy low end old gpu, this is the perfect gpu for you. Coming from a previous GT 730 2GB DDR3, this is the best upgrade you can do for your pc and yourself.

MHS5709
Avatar level
2

Excellent

2 years ago.

best gpu for the money you pay

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