GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop (28/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 59.0 Below Average WINNER 48.0 Poor
Gaming 20.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 13504 87569
Night Raid 56676 206648
Port Royal 569 38202
Solar Bay 24115 236689
Time Spy 5386 46873
Wild Life Extreme 10240 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 8.6 12.0
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.2 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 68 299
1080p Ultra 53 254
1440p Ultra 38 207
4K Ultra 19 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 53422821 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 128896526 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 44402410 26123316077
Far Cry 6 67584622 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 85494125 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 38302212 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 40362513 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 74684723 329302238128
The Witcher 3 79624220 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 19119 85572
Face Detection (HP) 20723 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 4716 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 12032 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9965 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 3449 8184
Object Detection (SP) 5585 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 41186 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 86331 687080
Text Classification (SP) 2133 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 107.9 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 3.61 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 62.6 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.81 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.89 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.75 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8303.3 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 275.9 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 6500M
Architecture Ampere Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Laptop Desktop
GPU Codename GA107 (GN20-P1) GB202-300
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 12700Hor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released January 1, 2021 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Launch price (MSRP) $1999

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 735-1463 MHz (configurable) 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1035-1695 MHz (configurable) 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 20 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 176
Shading Units 2560 21760
Tensor Cores 80 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 128-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 4 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 75 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 49 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 499 1410
GPU Compute 4319 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 276 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 8 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
TGP 35-95 W (configurable) 575 W
Transistor Count 12 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 43.48 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 50-81 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 83-136 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

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