NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB videocard review

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB

GeForce RTX 3050 8GB videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 4 Jan 2022. The videocard is based on Ampere microarchitecture codenamed GA106.

Core clock speed - 1552 MHz. Boost clock speed - 1777 MHz. Texture fill rate - 142.2 GTexel/s. Pipelines - 2560. Manufacturing process technology - 8 nm. Transistors count - 12000 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 130 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR6. Maximum RAM amount - 8 GB. Memory bus width - 128 bit. Memory clock speed - 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective. Memory bandwidth - 224.0 GB/s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
932
PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38588
12807
Name Value
PassMark - G2D Mark 932
PassMark - G3D Mark 12807

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture Ampere
Code name GA106
Launch date 4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating 43

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1777 MHz
Core clock speed 1552 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 142.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 9.098 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 9.098 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560
Pixel fill rate 56.86 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 142.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt
Transistor count 12000 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8
Length 242 mm, 9.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6