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.
Compared to its NVIDIA 's closest rival, RTX 2080, the Radeon VII was -8.2 % slower. For 1080p Full HD, we were able to play Metro Exodus, God of War, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Dead Space, Forza Horizon 5 at 68 fps to 70 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 69 fps.
For 1440p Quad HD, we were able to play Battlefield 2042, Baldur's Gate 3, Armored Core VI, Anthem, Final Fantasy XV at 65 fps to 70 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 67 fps. For 2160p 4K, we were able to play Forza Horizon 4, Spider-Man Remastered, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Fallout 76, Battlefield V at 64 fps to 66 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 65 fps.
| RTX 3050 | Radeon VII | |
|---|---|---|
| Length | 242 mm 9.5 inches | 12 inches 305 mm |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort | 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
| Power Connectors | 1x 12-pin | 2x 8-pin |
| Slot Width | Dual-slot | Dual-slot |
| TDP | 90 W | 295 W |
| RTX 3050 | Radeon VII | |
|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | 1740 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| GPU Clock | 1545 MHz | 1450 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective | 1000 MHz |
| RTX 3050 | Radeon VII | |
|---|---|---|
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Generation | GeForce 30 | Vega II |
| Launch Price | 200 USD | 699 USD |
| Production | Active | Unreleased |
| Release Date | 2021 | Feb 7th, 2019 |
| RTX 3050 | Radeon VII | |
|---|---|---|
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12.0 (12_1) |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | 6.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.2.140 | 1.1.86 |
| RTX 3050 | Radeon VII | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ampere | GCN 5.1 |
| Die Size | unknown | 331 mm² |
| GPU Name | GA107 | Vega 20 |
| GPU Variant | GA107-300-A1 | Vega 20 XT |
| Process Size | 8 nm | 7 nm |
| Transistors | unknown | 13,230 million |
| RTX 3050 | Radeon VII | |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth | 224.0 GB/s | 1,024 GB/s |
| Memory Bus | 128 bit | 4096 bit |
| Memory Size | 4096 MB | 16384 MB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | HBM2 |
| RTX 3050 | Radeon VII | |
|---|---|---|
| ROPs | 40 | 64 |
| Shading Units | 2304 | 3840 |
| TMUs | 72 | 240 |
| RTX 3050 | Radeon VII | |
|---|---|---|
| FP16 (half) performance | 8.018 TFLOPS (1:1) | 27,648 GFLOPS (2:1) |
| FP32 (float) performance | 8.018 TFLOPS | 13,824 GFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) performance | 125.3 GFLOPS (1:64) | 6,912 GFLOPS (1:2) |
| Pixel Rate | 69.60 GPixel/s | 115.2 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 125.3 GTexel/s | 432.0 GTexel/s |
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