GeForce RTX 3050 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 (25/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce RTX 3050
GeForce

GeForce RTX 3050

25/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 5090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5090

96/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 3050 GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 50.0 Below Average WINNER 48.0 Poor
Gaming 22.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 15967 87569
Night Raid 74854 206648
Port Royal 3546 38202
Solar Bay 30191 236689
Time Spy 6235 46873
Wild Life Extreme 12795 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 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 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 75 299
1080p Ultra 59 254
1440p Ultra 42 207
4K Ultra 21 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 59493522 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 1391017231 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 48452611 26123316077
Far Cry 6 76664925 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 92534326 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 46352815 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 49383013 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 80734925 329302238128
The Witcher 3 90704924 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 18361 85572
Face Detection (HP) 22467 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 4958 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 12747 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9816 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 3721 8184
Object Detection (SP) 5929 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 41362 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 84665 687080
Text Classification (SP) 2563 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 110.4 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 3.76 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 64.4 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 2.87 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 9339.7 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 270.9 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 GeForce RTX 5090
Architecture Ampere Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GA106 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $249 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 12400or above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released January 27, 2022 January 7, 2025
Segment Entry-level High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1552 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1777 MHz 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) 32 176
Shading Units 2560 21760
Tensor Cores 80 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 128-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 90 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 59 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 916 1410
GPU Compute 6415 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 276 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 8 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
TGP 130 W 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 GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 57 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 142 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3050 GeForce RTX 5090
Date Benchmark —
📘 2026-04-21->DmitryDmitry Cinebench 2024 —

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