GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs HD Graphics 2500

Place in the ranking	1167	174
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	16.52
Architecture	Generation 7.0 (2012−2013)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	Ivy Bridge GT1	GA106
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	1 April 2012 (12 years ago)	4 January 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	48	2560
Core clock speed	650 MHz	1515 MHz
Boost clock speed	1150 MHz	1755 MHz
Number of transistors	392 million	12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	unknown	130 Watt
Texture fill rate	6.900	140.4
Floating-point processing power	0.1104 TFLOPS	8.986 TFLOPS
ROPs	1	32
TMUs	6	80
Tensor Cores	no data	80
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	20

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	no data	242 mm
Width	IGP	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	System Shared	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	8 GB
Memory bus width	System Shared	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	224.0 GB/s
Shared memory	+	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.0	6.6
OpenGL	4.0	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.1.80	1.3
CUDA	-	8.6

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

Full HD

−4186%

300−350
+4186%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

3−4
−4233%

130−140

+4233%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5 −4150%	170−180 +4150%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 −4233%	130−140 +4233%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 −4233%	130−140 +4233%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 −3900%	40−45 +3900%
Hitman 3	5−6 −4300%	220−230 +4300%
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12 −3991%	450−500 +3991%
Red Dead Redemption 2	0−1	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7 −4233%	260−270 +4233%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−33 −4233%	1300−1350 +4233%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5 −4150%	170−180 +4150%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 −4233%	130−140 +4233%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 −4233%	130−140 +4233%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 −3900%	40−45 +3900%
Hitman 3	5−6 −4300%	220−230 +4300%
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12 −3991%	450−500 +3991%
Red Dead Redemption 2	0−1	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7 −4233%	260−270 +4233%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11 −3900%	400−450 +3900%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−33 −4233%	1300−1350 +4233%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5 −4150%	170−180 +4150%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 −4233%	130−140 +4233%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 −4233%	130−140 +4233%
Hitman 3	5−6 −4300%	220−230 +4300%
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12 −3991%	450−500 +3991%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7 −4233%	260−270 +4233%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11 −3900%	400−450 +3900%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−33 −4233%	1300−1350 +4233%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

0−1

1440p
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn

1−2

−3900%

40−45
+3900%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	0−1	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 −3900%	40−45 +3900%
Far Cry 5	1−2 −3900%	40−45 +3900%
Hitman 3	6−7 −4233%	260−270 +4233%
Horizon Zero Dawn	3−4 −4233%	130−140 +4233%
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3 −4150%	85−90 +4150%