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).
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