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GeForce RTX 3050

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Release date ≈ Q4 2022.

Average Bench: 74.6% (98th of 714)

Based on 2,708 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 2582 Model: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
Poor: 71%Average: 74.6% Great: 77%

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Good average bench

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 averaged 25.4% 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) 66.1fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 is just 5.84%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 88.1fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 91.2fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 2,708 samples)
Rank 9874.6%
Min Avg Max
95.3 Lighting 101 104
82.3 Reflection 88.1 115
86.8 Parallax 91.2 101
82% 93.3 fps
Min Avg Max
80.8 MRender 84 86.4
71.2 Gravity 74.1 76.5
63.5 Splatting 66.1 68.5
60.2% 74.7 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Gigabyte(1458 40B0) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2115 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 551.76
83.3% Excellent
Lighting 116
Reflection 87.1
Parallax 91.8
95% 98.4 fps
MRender 86
Gravity 74.2
Splatting 67
61% 75.7 fps
MSI(1462 8D9D) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 552.12
76.3% Very good
Lighting 103
Reflection 87.9
Parallax 92.4
84% 94.5 fps
MRender 85.5
Gravity 75.5
Splatting 66.9
61% 76 fps
Gigabyte(1458 4101) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2115 MHz, MLim: 3600 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 552.12
75.4% Very good
Lighting 102
Reflection 86.1
Parallax 91.1
83% 93.1 fps
MRender 84.6
Gravity 73.8
Splatting 66.1
60% 74.8 fps
Nvidia(10DE 163E) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 552.12
75.3% Very good
Lighting 102
Reflection 85.5
Parallax 91.5
83% 93 fps
MRender 84.7
Gravity 74.1
Splatting 65.8
60% 74.9 fps
MSI(1462 8D9D) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 551.86
74.8% Very good
Lighting 101
Reflection 86.3
Parallax 91.4
82% 92.9 fps
MRender 83.4
Gravity 74.4
Splatting 66
60% 74.6 fps
MSI(1462 8D9D) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 551.61
73.1% Very good
Lighting 98.2
Reflection 85.2
Parallax 89.5
80% 91 fps
MRender 83
Gravity 72.8
Splatting 65.7
60% 73.8 fps
Nvidia(10DE 2582) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 552.12
72.1% Very good
Lighting 96.1
Reflection 113
Parallax 87.4
78% 99 fps
MRender 84.1
Gravity 74
Splatting 65.3
60% 74.5 fps
MSI(1462 8D9D) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 552.22
54.4% Above average
Lighting 62.6
Reflection 101
Parallax 75.3
51% 79.6 fps
MRender 84.9
Gravity 74.6
Splatting 67.2
61% 75.6 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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MSI(1462 8D9D) 38% 75% ± 2%
Asus(1043 8890) 13% 75% ± 2%
Gigabyte(1458 40B0) 13% 74% ± 2%
Nvidia(10DE 2582) 10% 74% ± 2%
Zotac(19DA 2641) 6% 75% ± 1%
Nvidia(10DE 163E) 6% 75% ± 2%
MSI(1462 5001) 5% 75% ± 2%
Asus(1043 8891) 2% 75% ± 2%
PNY(196E 13E0) 2% 74% ± 3%
Device(7377 2000) 2% 74% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 4101) 1% 75% ± 2%
Device(7377 1530) 1% 74% ± 1%
Device(1771 163E) 1% 74% ± 1%
Asus(1043 888F) 0% 75% ± 1%
Device(7377 1531) 0% 77% ± 0%
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Gaming
Gaming 76%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 99%
Nuclear submarine
Workstation
Workstation 70%
Battle cruiser

Motherboard: MSI B560M PRO-E (MS-7D22)

CPU
Core i5-11400FIntel  $116Bench 94%, 46,609 samples667x
Core i5-10400FIntel  $99Bench 85%, 153,026 samples573x
Core i5-11400Intel  $134Bench 94%, 24,459 samples233x
GPU
GeForce RTX 3050NvidiaBench 75%, 2,708 samples1x
SSD
SNV2S1000G 1TBKingstonBench 260%, 75,739 samples91x
A400 480GBKingston  $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples61x
A400 240GBKingston  $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples58x
RAM
KF3200C16D4/8GX 2x8GBKingstonBench 88%, 58,684 samples157x
Group Inc TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBTeamBench 94%, 22,102 samples92x
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples75x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 120% - Outstanding Total price: $116

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