The good news is, with the release of the RTX 2080 Ti, the RTX 2080 SUPER 's price is getting more discount. Spec for spec, this RTX 2080 SUPER leapfrogs its direct predecessor, the GTX 1080, by boasting 32.8 % more fps.
Fortunately, gaming performance was quite impressive. The RTX 2080 SUPER consistently delivers great frame rate increases over the GTX 1080, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and it really justifies an upgrade. For 1080p Full HD, we were able to play Forspoken, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Atomic Heart, Halo Infinite, Assassin's Creed Valhalla at 63 fps to 69 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 65 fps.
For 1440p Quad HD, we were able to play Marvel's Avengers, Metro Exodus, Cyberpunk 2077, Total War: Warhammer III, Borderlands 3 at 64 fps to 67 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 65 fps. For 2160p 4K, we were able to play Resident Evil 2, Far Cry 5, Far Cry New Dawn, Death Stranding, Resident Evil 4 at 61 fps to 65 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 63 fps.
The RTX 3060 might be the mid-range flagship of the latest Ampere set of graphics cards, but their prices keep them out of the reach of most entry-level PC gamers. On the other hand, the RTX 3050 is closer to being reasonably affordable at a price tag of $ 200. The good news is, with the release of the RTX 3050 Ti, the RTX 3050 's price is getting more discount.
NVIDIA ’s xx50 cards have always been defined by entry-level prices with performance that knocks on the door of mid-range graphics cards – especially when overclocked. After taking the time to fully test the Ampere graphics card inside the RTX 3050, we can say without a doubt that it continues the trend. The RTX 3050 is much more expensive than the GTX 1650 as it costs a whopping $ 200. Compare this to the GTX 1650, which came originally at a price of $ 149. Meanwhile, the AMD closest equivalent card is the RX 5500 XT 4GB which costs $ 169.
Spec for spec, this RTX 3050 leapfrogs its direct predecessor, the GTX 1650, by boasting 63 % more fps. In our synthetic benchmarks, the RTX 3050 blows past the GTX 1650 and, amazingly, even the GTX 1660 as well.
Compared to its AMD 's closest rival, RX 5500 XT 4GB, the RTX 3050 was 40.1 % faster. Fortunately, gaming performance was quite impressive. The RTX 3050 consistently delivers great frame rate increases over the GTX 1650 and it really justifies an upgrade.
For 1080p Full HD, we were able to play Baldur's Gate 3, Armored Core VI, F1 22, Borderlands 3, Anthem at 60 fps to 63 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 61 fps. For 1440p Quad HD, we were able to play World War Z, GreedFall, Hitman 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Spider-Man Remastered at 63 fps to 68 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 65 fps.
For 2160p 4K, we were able to play Overwatch 2, Valorant at 64 fps to 138 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 101 fps.
| Year | Game | Frames Per Second |
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| 2019 | Apex Legends |
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| 2019 | Anthem |
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| 2019 | Far Cry New Dawn |
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| 2019 | Resident Evil 2 |
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| 2019 | Metro Exodus |
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| 2019 | World War Z |
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| 2019 | Gears of War 5 |
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| 2019 | F1 2019 |
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| 2019 | GreedFall |
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| 2019 | Borderlands 3 |
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| 2019 | Call of Duty Modern Warfare |
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| 2019 | Red Dead Redemption 2 |
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| 2019 | Need For Speed: Heat |
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| 2018 | Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 |
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| 2018 | Assassin's Creed Odyssey |
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| 2018 | Final Fantasy XV |
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| 2018 | Shadow of the Tomb Raider |
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| 2018 | Forza Horizon 4 |
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| 2018 | Fallout 76 |
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| 2018 | Hitman 2 |
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| 2018 | Just Cause 4 |
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| 2018 | Monster Hunter: World |
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| 2018 | Strange Brigade |
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| 2018 | Battlefield V |
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| 2017 | Assassin's Creed Origins |
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| 2017 | Destiny 2 |
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| 2017 | PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds |
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| 2017 | Fortnite Battle Royale |
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| 2017 | Need For Speed: Payback |
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| 2017 | For Honor |
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| 2017 | Project CARS 2 |
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| 2017 | Forza Motorsport 7 |
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| 2016 | Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation |
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| 2016 | Battlefield 1 |
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| 2016 | Overwatch |
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| 2016 | Dishonored 2 |
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| 2015 | Grand Theft Auto V |
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| 2015 | Rocket League |
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| 2015 | Need For Speed |
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| 2015 | Project CARS |
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| 2015 | Rainbow Six Siege |
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| 2012 | Counter-Strike: Global Offensive |
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| 2009 | League of Legends |
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| RTX 2080 SUPER | RTX 3050 | |
|---|---|---|
| Length | 10.5 inches 267 mm | 242 mm 9.5 inches |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort1x USB Type-C | 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 1x 12-pin |
| Slot Width | Dual-slot | Dual-slot |
| TDP | 215 W | 90 W |
| RTX 2080 SUPER | RTX 3050 | |
|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | 1815 MHz | 1740 MHz |
| GPU Clock | 1650 MHz | 1545 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1937 MHz 15496 MHz effective | 1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective |
| RTX 2080 SUPER | RTX 3050 | |
|---|---|---|
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Generation | GeForce 20 | GeForce 30 |
| Launch Price | 699 USD | 200 USD |
| Production | Active | Active |
| Release Date | Jul 23rd, 2019 | 2021 |
| RTX 2080 SUPER | RTX 3050 | |
|---|---|---|
| CUDA | 7.5 | 8.6 |
| DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 2.0 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 6.5 |
| Vulkan | 1.1.109 | 1.2.140 |
| RTX 2080 SUPER | RTX 3050 | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Turing | Ampere |
| Die Size | 545 mm² | unknown |
| GPU Name | TU104 | GA107 |
| GPU Variant | TU104-400-A1 | GA107-300-A1 |
| Process Size | 12 nm | 8 nm |
| Transistors | 13,600 million | unknown |
| RTX 2080 SUPER | RTX 3050 | |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth | 495.9 GB/s | 224.0 GB/s |
| Memory Bus | 256 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Size | 8192 MB | 4096 MB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| RTX 2080 SUPER | RTX 3050 | |
|---|---|---|
| ROPs | 64 | 40 |
| RT Cores | 48 | 18 |
| SM Count | 48 | 18 |
| Shading Units | 3072 | 2304 |
| TMUs | 192 | 72 |
| Tensor Cores | 384 | 72 |
| RTX 2080 SUPER | RTX 3050 | |
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| FP16 (half) performance | 22,300 GFLOPS (2:1) | 8.018 TFLOPS (1:1) |
| FP32 (float) performance | 11,150 GFLOPS | 8.018 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) performance | 348.5 GFLOPS (1:32) | 125.3 GFLOPS (1:64) |
| Pixel Rate | 116.2 GPixel/s | 69.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 348.5 GTexel/s | 125.3 GTexel/s |
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