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RTX 3050

Average Bench: 74.8% (89th of 700)

Based on 43,922 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 2507 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: 69%Average: 74.8% Great: 79%

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Good average bench

The Nvidia RTX 3050 averaged 25.2% 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) 102fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 64.5fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia RTX 3050 is just 9.28%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia RTX 3050 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 86.9fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 89.2fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 43,922 samples)
Rank 8974.8%
Min Avg Max
93.4 Lighting 102 107
78.2 Reflection 86.9 115
80.2 Parallax 89.2 98.6
82.9% 92.6 fps
Min Avg Max
78.6 MRender 83.3 86.5
68.1 Gravity 72.2 75.7
60.8 Splatting 64.5 67.9
59% 73.3 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Zotac(19DA C630)
CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 528.02
76% Very good
Lighting 104
Reflection 84.6
Parallax 98.2
85% 95.5 fps
MRender 82.6
Gravity 72.8
Splatting 65.4
59% 73.6 fps
Zotac(19DA 6301) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 535.98
75.3% Very good
Lighting 102
Reflection 83.8
Parallax 90
84% 92.1 fps
MRender 85.6
Gravity 71.9
Splatting 64.4
60% 74 fps
Nvidia(10DE 2507) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 535.98
74.8% Very good
Lighting 102
Reflection 116
Parallax 89.3
83% 103 fps
MRender 83.9
Gravity 71.4
Splatting 63.4
59% 72.9 fps
PNY(196E 1397) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 535.98
69% Good
Lighting 91.8
Reflection 77.2
Parallax 81.3
75% 83.4 fps
MRender 79.9
Gravity 69.9
Splatting 64.3
58% 71.4 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 61,552,167 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 C978) 18% 74% ± 3%
MSI RTX 3050 8GB Ventus 2X OC
V397-418R
EbayUS $2751 min
Asus(1043 887C) 12% 75% ± 3%
Asus RTX 3050 8GB Dual OC
‎DUAL-RTX3050-O8G
EbayUS $2751 min
Gigabyte(1458 40AA) 8% 76% ± 3%
Gigabyte RTX 3050 8GB Gaming OC
‎GV-N3050GAMING OC-8GD
EbayUS $3541 min
MSI(1462 C979) 8% 76% ± 4%
MSI RTX 3050 8GB Gaming X
V397-421R
EbayUS $3881 min
Gigabyte(1458 40A9) 8% 74% ± 3%
Gigabyte RTX 3050 8GB Eagle OC
‎GV-N3050EAGLE OC-8GD
Nvidia(10DE 2507) 6% 73% ± 3%
Zotac(19DA C630) 6% 74% ± 3%
Zotac RTX 3050 8GB Twin Edge OC
ZT-A30500H-10M
EbayUS $2691 min
AmazonUS $26920 mins
Nvidia(10DE 163D) 5% 75% ± 2%
Asus(1043 8876) 5% 74% ± 2%
Asus RTX 3050 8GB Phoenix
PH-RTX3050-8G
AmazonUS $23020 mins
EbayUS $3531 min
Device(13A8 196E) 4% 75% ± 3%
EVGA(3842 3553) 3% 76% ± 3%
EVGA RTX 3050 8GB XC Gaming
08G-P5-3553-KR
AmazonUS $50014 days
MSI(1462 8E99) 2% 75% ± 4%
Zotac(19DA D630) 2% 76% ± 2%
Asus(1043 8872) 2% 77% ± 4%
Asus RTX 3050 8GB ROG Strix OC
ROG-STRIX-RTX3050-O8G-GAMING
EbayUS $45829 days
Gigabyte(1458 40AB) 2% 75% ± 2%
EVGA(3842 3551) 1% 75% ± 3%
PNY(196E 1397) 1% 75% ± 2%
PNY(196E 1399) 1% 72% ± 4%
Zotac(19DA 6301) 1% 75% ± 2%
PNY(196E 1396) 1% 76% ± 2%
Device(7377 2000) 0% 72% ± 6%
Device(107D 2794) 0% 78% ± 5%
Device(7377 150A) 0% 72% ± 4%
Asus(1043 8889) 0% 78% ± 2%
Asus(1043 887B) 0% 74% ± 0%
Device(1B4C 163D) 0% 74% ± 0%
Device(7377 1501) 0% 77% ± 0%
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Gaming 70%
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  $103Bench 85%, 153,026 samples1,310x
Core i5-11400FIntel  $130Bench 94%, 38,461 samples1,001x
Core i3-10100FIntel  $66Bench 80%, 39,812 samples821x
GPU
RTX 3050Nvidia  $230Bench 75%, 43,922 samples1x
SSD
SNVS500G 500GBKingstonBench 186%, 34,043 samples272x
A400 240GBKingston  $22Bench 66%, 424,288 samples168x
SSD_M.2_PCI_NVME_256GB_InnovationIT 256GBBench 168%, 182 samples128x
RAM
Group Inc TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBTeamBench 94%, 22,102 samples261x
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples227x
KF3200C16D4/8GX 2x8GBKingstonBench 88%, 36,835 samples208x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 88% - Excellent Total price: $333

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 Comments

GPUPro
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1,617

Official site www.nvidia.com/...

Added 16 months ago.
USA-User
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9,398

Poor (edit your comment) Add link

13 hrs ago.

This card Is not as bad as people want you to think it is. It can run most games at 1080p ultra at around 60-90fps and its also cheap. This card can be good for budget gamers.

RUS-User
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4,608

Good

1 month ago.

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

KOR-User
Avatar level
3,040

Terrible

3 months ago.

Would rather buy a 1660ti for less money

EGY-User
Avatar level
2,830

Excellent

20 hrs ago.

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

BGR-User
Avatar level
2,768

Good

18 days ago.

This card is good for playing fortnite

ZAF-User
Avatar level
2,660

Poor

1 month ago.

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

SWE-User
Avatar level
2,640

Excellent

18 days ago.

It’s a good gpu for the price considering i got in the middle of the gpu shortage, i paid about 300-350 usd (don’t really remember)

DNK-User
Avatar level
2,108

Poor

9 days ago.

Absolutely fantastic I really don't know why some people are hating on it.

GEO-User
Avatar level
1,732

Good

2 months 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

BIH-User
Avatar level
1,618

Good

6 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
1,617

Good

16 months ago.

IRL-User
Avatar level
1,610

Good

9 days ago.

Works very well for low-mid range budget gamers.

KWT-User
Avatar level
908

Excellent

8 months ago.

cheap and not good rtx not optimal fps

ISL-User
Avatar level
480

Excellent

9 months ago.

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

ZxOmenGuyxZ
Avatar level
62

Average

9 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

16 months 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

4 months ago.

Poor power

Eurostarcz
Avatar level
16

Poor

14 months ago.

That bad

aren332
Avatar level
6

Terrible

2 month 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

gatedfuzz
Avatar level
4

Excellent

13 months 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

brokenblack
Avatar level
2

Good

13 months ago.

good value in a busted market

giobenchmarker
Avatar level
2

Excellent

12 months 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

11 months ago.

best gpu for the money you pay

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