NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 90W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1740MHz vs 1518MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +205%

7.127 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

10

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +200%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

20

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +200%

60

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

31

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +174%

85

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

16

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +212%

50

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

30

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +143%

73

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

38

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +165%

101

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

29

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +31%

38

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

65

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +13%

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

92

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +19%

110

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

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GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

May 2018

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1392 MHz

Base Clock

1545 MHz

1518 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

84.10GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

6

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

64

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

36.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

72.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

36.43 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

2.332 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

72.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

GA107

GP107-301-K1-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-140-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

90W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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