NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 5% higher core clock speed: 1552 MHz vs 1485 MHz
  • Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1777 MHz vs 1665 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 63% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 918 vs 564
  • Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12598 vs 7881
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 vs 30 April 2019
Core clock speed 1552 MHz vs 1485 MHz
Boost clock speed 1777 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 12 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 918 vs 564
PassMark - G3D Mark 12598 vs 7881

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

  • 4.6x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
918
564
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12598
7881
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
PassMark - G2D Mark 918 564
PassMark - G3D Mark 12598 7881
Geekbench - OpenCL 39165
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 134.765
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1316.075
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.799
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 94.915
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 573.418
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10959
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10959
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 305

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Turing
Code name GA106 TU107
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 30 April 2019
Place in performance rating 52 376
Launch price (MSRP) $179
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1777 MHz 1665 MHz
Core clock speed 1552 MHz 1485 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 12 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 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count 1
DisplayPort support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 242 mm, 9.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin None
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 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 8000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6