Component comparison

GeForce RTX 3050 vs RTX A500

GeForce RTX 3050 vs RTX A500 — 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) (+15 W)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+5340)
  • + Normalized score (+47.3)
B RTX A500
  • + Memory clock (MHz) (+250 MHz)
  • + Boost clock (MHz) (+194 MHz)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+1.75 TFLOPS)
  • + Energy efficiency (+3.3)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 3050
Component B
RTX A500
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 (+15 W) 60 W
Lithography (nm) 8 nm 8 nm
Transistors (M) 8,700M —
Die size (mm²) 200 mm² —
Base clock (MHz) 1065 MHz —
Boost clock (MHz) 1343 MHz 1537 MHz (+194 MHz)
CUDA cores 2,048 2,048
TMUs 64 64
ROPs 32 32
RT cores 16 16
Tensor cores 64 64
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 5.50 TFLOPS 7.25 TFLOPS (+1.75 TFLOPS)
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 42.98 GPixel/s —
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 85.95 GTexel/s —
Energy efficiency 17.0 20.2 (+3.3)
PassMark (overall) 11,878 (+5340) 6,538
3DMark Time Spy 4,497 —
3DMark Fire Strike 11,949 —
Geekbench OpenCL 63,465 —
Geekbench Vulkan 62,164 —
Normalized score 63.1 (+47.3) 15.8

Only in component B

CUDA DLSS

In both

ReBAR

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 3050 RTX A500 Delta
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 3050 wins 5 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).