NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile sales 6 January 2023. This is a laptop graphics card based on an Ampere architecture and made with 8 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 6 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 12 GHz are supplied.

Power consumption is at 60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP).

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	214
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	28.71	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GN20-P0-R 6 GB
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	6 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2560	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	1237 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed	1492 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop size

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VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	96 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Shared memory	-

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12_2

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RTX 3050 6GB Mobile 25.13

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

RTX 3050 6GB Mobile 17421

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

RTX 3050 6GB Mobile 11960

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

RTX 3050 6GB Mobile 72486

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

RTX 3050 6GB Mobile 500518

3DMark Time Spy Graphics

RTX 3050 6GB Mobile 4661

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD	72
1440p	36

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	55−60
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	40−45
Battlefield 5	80−85
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	50−55
Cyberpunk 2077	64
Far Cry 5	55−60
Far Cry New Dawn	65−70
Forza Horizon 4	140−150
Hitman 3	50−55
Horizon Zero Dawn	110−120
Metro Exodus	85−90
Red Dead Redemption 2	65−70
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	85−90
Watch Dogs: Legion	100−110

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	55−60
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	40−45
Battlefield 5	80−85
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	50−55
Cyberpunk 2077	46
Far Cry 5	55−60
Far Cry New Dawn	65−70
Forza Horizon 4	140−150
Hitman 3	50−55
Horizon Zero Dawn	110−120
Metro Exodus	85−90
Red Dead Redemption 2	65−70
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	86
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	50−55
Watch Dogs: Legion	100−110

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	55−60
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	40−45
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	50−55
Cyberpunk 2077	39
Far Cry 5	55−60
Forza Horizon 4	140−150
Hitman 3	50−55
Horizon Zero Dawn	110−120
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	76
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	50
Watch Dogs: Legion	100−110

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

65−70

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	45−50
Far Cry New Dawn	35−40

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	24−27
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	24−27
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	27−30
Cyberpunk 2077	16−18
Far Cry 5	27−30
Forza Horizon 4	140−150
Hitman 3	30−33
Horizon Zero Dawn	50−55
Metro Exodus	45−50
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	57
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	37
Watch Dogs: Legion	140−150

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

40−45

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	24−27
Far Cry New Dawn	20−22
Hitman 3	20−22
Horizon Zero Dawn	120−130
Metro Exodus	27−30
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	27−30

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	14−16
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	12−14
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	14−16
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7
Far Cry 5	14−16
Forza Horizon 4	30−35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	30−35
Watch Dogs: Legion	10−12

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

21−24

Closest competitors

GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 105.41

GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile 104.66

GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 100.76

GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile 100

Radeon RX 6550M 99.2

GeForce GTX 980M SLI 97.93

Arc A550M 97.53

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile is Radeon RX 6550M, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.