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RTX 3050

Average Bench: 72.9% (73rd of 685)

Based on 22,587 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 35% faster than AMD's 6500 XT whilst street prices for the 3050 are 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: 72.9% Great: 77%

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Good average bench

The Nvidia RTX 3050 averaged 27.1% 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) 103fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 73.5fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia RTX 3050 is just 8.75%. 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) 87.8fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 90.8fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 22,587 samples)
Rank 7372.9%
Min Avg Max
94.5 Lighting 103 110
79.7 Reflection 87.8 115
80.4 Parallax 90.8 102
83.3% 93.9 fps
Min Avg Max
80.4 MRender 84.9 88.2
70.1 Gravity 73.5 77.4
62.3 Splatting 65.3 69.3
60.7% 74.6 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
MSI(1462 C978)
CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 516.94
73.7% Very good
Lighting 105
Reflection 85.2
Parallax 91.7
85% 94 fps
MRender 82.5
Gravity 73.8
Splatting 66.4
61% 74.2 fps
EVGA(3842 3553)
CLim: 2175 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 517.48
73.7% Very good
Lighting 106
Reflection 85.6
Parallax 92.6
86% 94.9 fps
MRender 80.2
Gravity 72.3
Splatting 65.6
59% 72.7 fps
Asus(1043 8876)
CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 517.48
72.6% Very good
Lighting 103
Reflection 85.4
Parallax 90.6
83% 93 fps
MRender 84.5
Gravity 72.9
Splatting 65.7
60% 74.4 fps
MSI(1462 C978)
CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 511.79
72.4% Very good
Lighting 102
Reflection 85.5
Parallax 90.8
83% 92.9 fps
MRender 83.5
Gravity 73.4
Splatting 66.2
60% 74.4 fps
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 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 55,256,929 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 22,587 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (MSRP ≈ $250 @ launch in Jan '22)
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Gigabyte(1458 40AA) 13% 73% ± 3%
Gigabyte RTX 3050 8GB Gaming OC
‎GV-N3050GAMING OC-8GD
EbayUS $37513 mins
MSI(1462 C978) 12% 73% ± 2%
MSI RTX 3050 8GB Ventus 2X OC
V397-418R
EbayUS $3542 days
Gigabyte(1458 40A9) 9% 72% ± 2%
Gigabyte RTX 3050 8GB Eagle OC
‎GV-N3050EAGLE OC-8GD
EbayUS $32013 mins
Nvidia(10DE 2507) 9% 72% ± 3%
Asus(1043 887C) 9% 73% ± 3%
Asus RTX 3050 8GB Dual OC
‎DUAL-RTX3050-O8G
EbayUS $37913 mins
MSI(1462 C979) 9% 74% ± 2%
MSI RTX 3050 8GB Gaming X
V397-421R
EbayUS $3992 days
Nvidia(10DE 163D) 6% 73% ± 2%
Zotac(19DA C630) 6% 73% ± 3%
Zotac RTX 3050 8GB Twin Edge OC
ZT-A30500H-10M
AmazonUS $3009 mins
EbayUS $31013 mins
EVGA(3842 3553) 6% 74% ± 3%
EVGA RTX 3050 8GB XC Gaming
08G-P5-3553-KR
AmazonUS $3309 mins
EbayUS $41813 mins
Asus(1043 8876) 4% 72% ± 3%
Asus RTX 3050 8GB Phoenix
PH-RTX3050-8G
EbayUS $33013 mins
AmazonUS $3369 mins
Zotac(19DA D630) 2% 73% ± 4%
Gigabyte(1458 40AB) 2% 72% ± 2%
Asus(1043 8872) 2% 76% ± 1%
Asus RTX 3050 8GB ROG Strix OC
ROG-STRIX-RTX3050-O8G-GAMING
EbayUS $50013 mins
MSI(1462 8E99) 2% 72% ± 3%
PNY(196E 1397) 2% 70% ± 3%
PNY(196E 1399) 1% 74% ± 3%
EVGA(3842 3551) 1% 74% ± 4%
PNY(196E 1396) 1% 72% ± 2%
Device(107D 2794) 0% 72% ± 3%
Gigabyte(1458 40B2) 0% 75% ± 4%
Zotac(19DA E630) 0% 75% ± 0%
Asus(1043 887B) 0% 72% ± 0%
Device(7377 2000) 0% 68% ± 5%
Device(7377 1501) 0% 73% ± 1%
Device(7377 150A) 0% 69% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8889) 0% 75% ± 0%
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Gaming
Gaming 69%
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Desktop
Desktop 92%
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Workstation
Workstation 63%
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Motherboard: MSI H510M-A PRO (MS-7D22)

CPU
Core i5-10400FIntel  $115Bench 86%, 143,706 samples838x
Core i5-11400FIntel  $170Bench 94%, 25,529 samples596x
Core i3-10100FIntel  $73Bench 82%, 35,862 samples555x
GPU
RTX 3050Nvidia  $300Bench 73%, 22,587 samples1x
SSD
SNVS500G 500GBKingstonBench 206%, 25,258 samples196x
SSD_M.2_PCI_NVME_256GB_InnovationIT 256GBBench 168%, 182 samples128x
A400 240GBKingston  $22Bench 66%, 424,288 samples110x
RAM
Group Inc TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBTeamBench 94%, 14,331 samples178x
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples148x
KF3200C16D4/8GX 2x8GBKingstonBench 90%, 22,023 samples141x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 72% - Very good Total price: $415

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 Comments

GPUPro
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1,576

Official site www.nvidia.com/...

Added 8 months ago.
USA-User
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8,910

Poor (edit your comment) Add link

7 hrs ago.

great card for everything i need i will be upgrading in the summer and will give a final update then

GBR-User
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5,316

Good

2 days ago.

Great value for money and amazing 1080p gpu

CAN-User
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4,548

Terrible

1 day ago.

it is terrible value just buy a 2060 it is the same price/cheaper for 20% more performance.

BGR-User
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2,620

Excellent

3 months ago.

This card is good for playing fortnite

NOR-User
Avatar level
2,090

Good

3 hrs ago.

Cheap price for great performance.

DNK-User
Avatar level
2,018

Excellent

14 days ago.

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

GPUPro
Avatar level
1,576

Good

8 months ago.

BIH-User
Avatar level
1,524

Excellent

4 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€

KWT-User
Avatar level
874

Excellent

21 days ago.

cheap and not good rtx not optimal fps

ISL-User
Avatar level
440

Excellent

1 month ago.

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

Ethernalside
Avatar level
38

Excellent

8 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

ZxOmenGuyxZ
Avatar level
32

Average

27 days 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.

Eurostarcz
Avatar level
14

Poor

6 months ago.

That bad

codyh
Avatar level
8

Terrible

3 months ago.

Just gross

gatedfuzz
Avatar level
4

Excellent

5 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

5 months ago.

good value in a busted market

giobenchmarker
Avatar level
2

Excellent

4 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

2 months ago.

best gpu for the money you pay

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