Component comparison
GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce RTX 2050
GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce RTX 2050 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.
Advantages
A
GeForce RTX 3050
- + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+80 GB/s)
- + Memory bus (bit) (+64 bit)
- + TGP / TDP (W) (+30 W)
- + Base clock (MHz) (+330 MHz)
- + Boost clock (MHz) (+98 MHz)
- + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+0.77 TFLOPS)
- + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+3.14 GPixel/s)
- + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+6.27 GTexel/s)
- + 3DMark Time Spy (+1276)
- + 3DMark Fire Strike (+2984)
- + Geekbench OpenCL (+19186)
- + Geekbench Vulkan (+19134)
- + Normalized score (+7.9)
B
GeForce RTX 2050
- + Memory clock (MHz) (+250 MHz)
- + RT cores (+16)
- + Energy efficiency (+12.7)
Detailed spec comparison
| Spec |
Component A
GeForce RTX 3050
|
Component B
GeForce RTX 2050
|
|---|---|---|
| Release year | 2021 | 2021 |
| VRAM (GB) | 4 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory clock (MHz) | 1500 MHz | 1750 MHz (+250 MHz) |
| Bandwidth (GB/s) | 192 GB/s (+80 GB/s) | 112 GB/s |
| Memory bus (bit) | 128 bit (+64 bit) | 64 bit |
| TGP / TDP (W) | 75 W (+30 W) | 45 W |
| Lithography (nm) | 8 nm | 8 nm |
| Transistors (M) | 8,700M | 8,700M |
| Die size (mm²) | 200 mm² | 200 mm² |
| Base clock (MHz) | 1065 MHz (+330 MHz) | 735 MHz |
| Boost clock (MHz) | 1343 MHz (+98 MHz) | 1245 MHz |
| CUDA cores | 2,048 | 2,048 |
| TMUs | 64 | 64 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| RT cores | 16 | 32 (+16) |
| Tensor cores | 64 | 64 |
| FP32 performance (TFLOPS) | 5.50 TFLOPS (+0.77 TFLOPS) | 4.73 TFLOPS |
| Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) | 42.98 GPixel/s (+3.14 GPixel/s) | 39.84 GPixel/s |
| Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) | 85.95 GTexel/s (+6.27 GTexel/s) | 79.68 GTexel/s |
| Energy efficiency | 17.0 | 29.6 (+12.7) |
| PassMark (overall) | 11,878 | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 4,497 (+1276) | 3,221 |
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 11,949 (+2984) | 8,965 |
| Geekbench OpenCL | 63,465 (+19186) | 44,279 |
| Geekbench Vulkan | 62,164 (+19134) | 43,030 |
| Normalized score | 63.1 (+7.9) | 55.2 |
Only in component B
CUDA
DLSS
In both
ReBAR
FPS in games (1080p)
| Game | GeForce RTX 3050 | GeForce RTX 2050 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assassin's Creed Mirage | 55 FPS | 25 FPS | +120% (A) |
| Avatar Frontiers of Pandora | 32 FPS | 12 FPS | +166.7% (A) |
| Baldur's Gate 3 | 45 FPS | 30 FPS | +50% (A) |
| Battlefield 5 | 93 FPS | ≈ 70 FPS | +32.9% (A) |
| CS:GO | 240 FPS | ≈ 240 FPS | ≈ |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 170 FPS | ≈ 74 FPS | +129.7% (A) |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 66 FPS | 18 FPS | +266.7% (A) |
| Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 | 46 FPS | 19 FPS | +142.1% (A) |
| Dota 2 | 118 FPS | 71 FPS | +66.2% (A) |
| F1 2021 | 105 FPS | 66 FPS | +59.1% (A) |
| F1 22 | 86 FPS | 55 FPS | +56.4% (A) |
| F1 23 | 87 FPS | 37 FPS | +135.1% (A) |
| Far Cry 5 | 68 FPS | 35 FPS | +94.3% (A) |
| Final Fantasy XV Benchmark | 44 FPS | 25 FPS | +76% (A) |
| Fortnite | 110 FPS | ≈ 95 FPS | +15.8% (A) |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 90 FPS | ≈ 70 FPS | +28.6% (A) |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 87 FPS | 53 FPS | +64.2% (A) |
| GTA V | 140 FPS | ≈ 140 FPS | ≈ |
| GTA V | 95 FPS | 74 FPS | +28.4% (A) |
| Metro Exodus | 49 FPS | ≈ 35 FPS | +40% (A) |
| Overwatch | 240 FPS | ≈ 240 FPS | ≈ |
| PUBG | 140 FPS | ≈ 140 FPS | ≈ |
| Resident Evil 4 Remake | 50 FPS | 17 FPS | +194.1% (A) |
| Returnal | 34 FPS | 21 FPS | +61.9% (A) |
| The Witcher 3 | 81 FPS | ≈ 58 FPS | +39.7% (A) |
| The Witcher 3 | 71 FPS | 47 FPS | +51.1% (A) |
| Tiny Tina's Wonderlands | 56 FPS | 38 FPS | +47.4% (A) |
| Valorant | 150 FPS | ≈ 130 FPS | +15.4% (A) |
| X-Plane 11.11 | 62 FPS | 59 FPS | +5.1% (A) |
Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings. Values for GeForce RTX 2050 are model predictions (≈); GeForce RTX 3050 are direct measurements.
Based on the comparison:
GeForce RTX 3050 wins 13 of the comparable criteria.
The choice depends on your use case.
🤔 How to choose
Universal advice for any use case.
- Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
- Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
- Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).