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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 is a graphics card. It has 2,560 shading units, 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, 224.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth and a boost clock of 1.78 GHz. It supports CUDA compute capability 8.6.

6/10 key specs recorded · 31 facts

Depth: 13 recorded fields, 12 features

Specification data last verified November 2, 2026 against NVIDIA Developer: CUDA GPUs, NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 6 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

NVIDIA Developer: CUDA GPUsNVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support MatrixWikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)
Shading units
2,560cores
20 SMs
Memory
8 GB
GDDR6 · 128-bit
Boost clock
1.78 GHz
1.55 GHz base
Board power
n/a

Not to be confused with

This page covers the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 specifically. It is a different product from NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Laptop GPU, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.

Shader configuration

Shading units 2,560
Compute units Not recorded
Streaming multiprocessors 20
Execution units Not recorded
Texture units (TMUs) 80
Render output units (ROPs) 32
Ray tracing cores 20
Tensor / AI cores 80
XMX engines Not recorded
Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 has 2,560 shading units, 20 streaming multiprocessors, 80 texture mapping units, 32 render output units, 20 ray tracing cores and 80 tensor cores.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050.

Clock speeds

Base clock 1.55 GHz
Boost clock 1.78 GHz
Game clock Not recorded
Memory clock Not recorded
Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 runs at a base clock of 1.55 GHz and boosts to 1.78 GHz.

Memory

Size 8 GB
Type GDDR6
Bus width 128-bit
Bandwidth 224.0 GB/s

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 is equipped with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory, uses a 128-bit memory bus and delivers 224.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 supports CUDA compute capability 8.6.

CUDA compute capability 8.6

Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050.

Features

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 has 3 supported features recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Rendering

  • Supported: Hardware ray tracing
    Dedicated GPU hardware that speeds up ray-traced lighting, reflections and shadows in supported games and apps.
    Ray tracing units: 20
Not listed (3)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, NVIDIA DLSS and Vulkan ray tracing. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 supports Hardware ray tracing under Rendering.

Compute and AI

  • Supported: CUDA Compute capability 8.6
    Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.
  • Supported: Tensor cores
    NVIDIA's dedicated matrix-math units used for AI workloads such as DLSS and machine-learning inference.
    Tensor cores: 80
Not listed (1)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 supports NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 supports CUDA (Compute capability 8.6) and Tensor cores under Compute and AI.

Media engine

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265) and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265), AV1 and VP9. It does not support hardware encode for AV1.

NVIDIA NVENC encoder 7th Generation Encoder engines: 1NVIDIA's dedicated video-encoding engine, used by streaming and capture software; newer generations encode more efficiently.
NVIDIA NVDEC decoder 5th Generation Decoder engines: 1NVIDIA's dedicated video-decoding engine; newer generations support more codecs and formats.
Hardware video codec support of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
CodecEncodeDecode
H.264 (AVC) Supported4:4:4: YesSupported
HEVC (H.265) Supported4:2:2: No; 4:4:4: Yes; 10-bit: Yes; B-frames: Yes; 8K: YesSupported4:4:4: Yes
AV1 Not supportedSupported
VP9 Not stated by the vendorSupported

supported   explicitly not supported   not stated by the vendor

Media engines recorded for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (7th Generation, encoder engines: 1) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (5th Generation, decoder engines: 1).

Feex fleet

2 Feex machines report the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 as their graphics hardware.

2 Feex machines with this GPU

The count covers machines that have reported hardware to Feex, counted once each; excluded and test machines are not counted, and no machine identity is published.

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 have?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 has 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus. Its memory bandwidth is 224.0 GB/s.

Does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 support ray tracing?

Yes. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 has hardware ray tracing with 20 ray tracing cores.

Does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 support AV1 encoding?

No. Feex records AV1 hardware encoding as explicitly not supported on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050, although it can decode AV1 in hardware.

What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 has CUDA compute capability 8.6.