Component comparison
GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce GTX 1050
GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce GTX 1050 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.
Advantages
A
GeForce RTX 3050
- + Release year (+4)
- + VRAM (GB) (+2 GB)
- + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+80 GB/s)
- + Lithography (nm) (-6 nm)
- + Transistors (M) (+5,400M)
- + CUDA cores (+1280)
- + TMUs (+16)
- + ROPs (+8)
- + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+3.29 TFLOPS)
- + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+27.75 GTexel/s)
- + Energy efficiency (+6.0)
- + PassMark (overall) (+6830)
- + 3DMark Fire Strike (+5881)
- + Geekbench OpenCL (+46036)
- + Geekbench Vulkan (+46398)
- + Normalized score (+31.8)
B
GeForce GTX 1050
- + Memory clock (MHz) (+5508 MHz)
- + Die size (mm²) (+68 mm²)
- + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+3.58 GPixel/s)
Detailed spec comparison
| Spec |
Component A
GeForce RTX 3050
|
Component B
GeForce GTX 1050
|
|---|---|---|
| Release year | 2021 (+4) | 2017 |
| VRAM (GB) | 4 GB (+2 GB) | 2 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR6 | GDDR5 |
| Memory clock (MHz) | 1500 MHz | 7008 MHz (+5508 MHz) |
| Bandwidth (GB/s) | 192 GB/s (+80 GB/s) | 112 GB/s |
| Memory bus (bit) | 128 bit | 128 bit |
| TGP / TDP (W) | 75 W | 75 W |
| Lithography (nm) | 8 nm (-6 nm) | 14 nm |
| Transistors (M) | 8,700M (+5,400M) | 3,300M |
| Die size (mm²) | 200 mm² | 132 mm² (+68 mm²) |
| Base clock (MHz) | 1065 MHz | — |
| Boost clock (MHz) | 1343 MHz | — |
| CUDA cores | 2,048 (+1280) | 768 |
| TMUs | 64 (+16) | 48 |
| ROPs | 32 (+8) | 24 |
| RT cores | 16 | — |
| Tensor cores | 64 | — |
| FP32 performance (TFLOPS) | 5.50 TFLOPS (+3.29 TFLOPS) | 2.21 TFLOPS |
| Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) | 42.98 GPixel/s | 46.56 GPixel/s (+3.58 GPixel/s) |
| Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) | 85.95 GTexel/s (+27.75 GTexel/s) | 58.20 GTexel/s |
| Energy efficiency | 17.0 (+6.0) | 11.0 |
| PassMark (overall) | 11,878 (+6830) | 5,048 |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 4,497 | — |
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 11,949 (+5881) | 6,068 |
| Geekbench OpenCL | 63,465 (+46036) | 17,429 |
| Geekbench Vulkan | 62,164 (+46398) | 15,766 |
| Normalized score | 63.1 (+31.8) | 31.3 |
Only in component A
ReBAR
Only in component B
CUDA
FPS in games (1080p)
| Game | GeForce RTX 3050 | GeForce GTX 1050 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baldur's Gate 3 | 45 FPS | 16 FPS | +181.3% (A) |
| Battlefield 5 | 93 FPS | 51 FPS | +82.4% (A) |
| CS:GO | 240 FPS | 240 FPS | ≈ |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 170 FPS | 65 FPS | +161.5% (A) |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 66 FPS | 24 FPS | +175% (A) |
| Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 | 46 FPS | 14 FPS | +228.6% (A) |
| Dota 2 | 118 FPS | 126 FPS | 6.8% (B) |
| F1 2021 | 105 FPS | 37 FPS | +183.8% (A) |
| F1 22 | 86 FPS | 38 FPS | +126.3% (A) |
| F1 23 | 87 FPS | 36 FPS | +141.7% (A) |
| Far Cry 5 | 68 FPS | 39 FPS | +74.4% (A) |
| Final Fantasy XV Benchmark | 44 FPS | 18 FPS | +144.4% (A) |
| Fortnite | 110 FPS | 132 FPS | 20% (B) |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 90 FPS | 55 FPS | +63.6% (A) |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 87 FPS | 35 FPS | +148.6% (A) |
| GTA V | 140 FPS | 140 FPS | ≈ |
| GTA V | 95 FPS | 66 FPS | +43.9% (A) |
| Metro Exodus | 49 FPS | 19 FPS | +157.9% (A) |
| Overwatch | 240 FPS | 240 FPS | ≈ |
| PUBG | 140 FPS | 140 FPS | ≈ |
| Resident Evil 4 Remake | 50 FPS | 24 FPS | +108.3% (A) |
| Returnal | 34 FPS | 20 FPS | +70% (A) |
| The Witcher 3 | 81 FPS | 39 FPS | +107.7% (A) |
| The Witcher 3 | 71 FPS | 29 FPS | +144.8% (A) |
| Tiny Tina's Wonderlands | 56 FPS | 19 FPS | +194.7% (A) |
| Valorant | 150 FPS | 100 FPS | +50% (A) |
| X-Plane 11.11 | 62 FPS | 45 FPS | +37.8% (A) |
Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.
Based on the comparison:
GeForce RTX 3050 wins 16 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).