46 FPS average at 1440p across 9 games, anchored estimate · 1440p at reduced settings, or comfortable 1080p gaming
46 Avg FPS Includes estimates
These figures are anchored estimates, interpolated against the cards we measured first-party on the same suite, and they stay labeled as estimates until this card runs. Across our 9-game suite at 1440p, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 averages 46 FPS. The ceiling is Counter-Strike 2 at 77 FPS; the floor is Alan Wake 2 at 29 FPS, a 2.7x spread that tells you how engine-dependent this class of card is. In practical terms that means 1440p at reduced settings, or comfortable 1080p gaming. Under load we logged a peak of 125W against the 130W rating.
| Benchmark | Result | 1% Low | VRAM Used | Power | Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra | 34 FPS | 27 | 6.75 GB | 124 W | Estimated |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality | 39 FPS | 30 | 6.57 GB | 121 W | Estimated |
| Alan Wake 2 1440p · High | 29 FPS | 24 | 7.36 GB | 120 W | Estimated |
| Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra | 56 FPS | 46 | 7 GB | 125 W | Estimated |
| Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered | 59 FPS | 38 | 5.29 GB | 124 W | Estimated |
| Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High | 77 FPS | 42 | 7.13 GB | 104 W | Estimated |
| Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra | 48 FPS | 37 | 7.36 GB | 122 W | Estimated |
| Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra | 41 FPS | 30 | 7.36 GB | 112 W | Estimated |
| The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra | 32 FPS | 27 | 7.05 GB | 124 W | Estimated |
| Architecture | Ampere (GA106) |
| CUDA cores | 2,560 |
| VRAM | 8GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 128-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 224 GB/s |
| Boost clock | 1,777 MHz |
| TDP | 130 W |
| Process | 8nm |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Release date | 2022-01-27 |
| Launch MSRP | $249 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 averages 46 FPS at 1440p on our suite. These figures are anchored estimates, interpolated against the cards we measured first-party on the same suite, and they stay labeled as estimates until this card runs.
100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #66 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | Avg FPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 | 113% | 52 | |
| Intel Arc A580 | 109% | 50 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 | 102% | 47 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6600 | 100% | 46 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 | 100% | 46 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti | 98% | 45 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 | 83% | 38 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti | 76% | 35 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | 74% | 34 |
Same card, other workloads: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 AI benchmarks, LLM tokens/sec, image generation & VRAM fit
| Transistors | 12,000 million |
| Die size | 276 mm² |
| Process node | 8 nm |
| Fabricated by | Samsung |
| Transistor density | 43.5 million per mm² |
Denser than 78% of the 746 cards we have silicon data for. Density is the clearest measure of what a process node bought: a card that gained it without growing the die got its speed from the fab rather than the architecture.
Silicon figures from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Benchmarks on this page are our own. Compare every chip.
Whole-job timings, composed from our measured per-model results on this card.
Can't run: Product photo shoot (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Photo restoration batch (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Restore and enlarge photos (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Character sheet, 12 poses (needs FLUX.1 dev), Short social clips (needs Qwen3 32B), 60-second AI short film (needs Qwen3 32B), 24-frame storyboard (needs Qwen3 32B), 6-panel comic page (needs Qwen3 32B), Long-form article batch (needs Llama 3.3 70B), Full codebase review (needs Qwen2.5-Coder 14B).
Renting this card costs $0.154/hour right now. We started tracking on 2026-10-03, so there is not enough history to chart yet. The line fills in as prices move.