GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Laptop GPU: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Laptop GPU is the fourth and currently last catalog record of NVIDIA's entry Ampere silicon — the same 2048-core die tracked under three other names, this one measured at the thinner end of the power band. This guide covers its 29 benchmarked games at 1080p on high (13 with medium-preset data) and the 230-model catalog pool the 3050 family shares.

Where the GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Laptop GPU sits in 2026

A catalog score of 58.5 ranks this record 89th of 341 — the bottom rung of the 3050 family's band (70th to 89th). The neighbors are an eclectic set: the RTX 2080 Max-Q (59.1) and Apple M3 Ultra (59) above, the RTX A2000 Laptop GPU (58.7) alongside, and the GTX 1080 with Max-Q Design (58.3), RTX A1000 6GB (58.3) and Quadro P5000 (58.2) below. Sitting level with a five-year-older flagship and a professional Pascal card is a fair summary of what the low-power 3050 sample delivers.

What the chip brings

Ampere architecture, 8nm process, 2048 CUDA cores with RT and tensor cores, DLSS flagged, 4GB of GDDR6 — the full family specification. The differences live in power and measured throughput: this record carries a 60W envelope versus the 75W of its siblings, and GeekBench Vulkan lands at 46650, the lowest of the family's four samples (the ladder runs 62164, 57785, 51690 and 46650 — roughly ten percent lost per step down). PassMark stays identical at 11878 across all records, again marking one silicon measured repeatedly. Time Spy 4497 and Fire Strike 11949 match the family too; Resizable BAR is flagged.

FPS in games at 1080p

The high-preset table mirrors the family: Counter-Strike 2 at 170 fps, Valorant at 150, DOTA 2 at 118, Fortnite at 110, the capped quartet at 240/140. Racing titles show clean medium-preset headroom — F1 2021 from 105 to 127, F1 23 from 87 to 109, F1 22 from 86 to 106 — while the modern block sits at The Witcher 3 81, Far Cry 5 68, Cyberpunk 2077 66 on high, Resident Evil 4 remake 50, Baldur's Gate 3 45 and Metro Exodus 49. In other words: the 60W sample loses compute points on paper but holds the same game table as its 75W siblings at 1080p.

Laptops that carry it

The 230-model pool is shared across all 3050 name variants: 2025 gaming machines like the Alienware 16 Aurora ($2220), OMEN 16 Slim ($1665), ASUS TUF F16 and Acer Nitro V 15/16 ($1440), Lenovo LOQ 15ARP10E ($1440) and HP Victus 15 from $1256, plus the ProBook 4/EliteBook 6 G1i business pair at $1144. A listing matches the family name, not this specific record — judge each machine on its actual spec sheet. The fleet medians (best-GPU 72.7, gaming index 72, USComp 78.5) describe the pool's stronger configuration options, not this 60W sample.

Bottom line

This record completes the 3050 family picture: one silicon, four samples, four score points of spread. For buyers it reinforces the honest verdict — the 3050 in any of its records is a 1080p-high card with DLSS support, a 4GB constraint, and excellent value inside the aggressively priced 2025 machines that carry it. If comparing listings, the practical differences between 3050 variants come from the laptop's cooling and wattage, not the GPU name on the sticker.