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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM is a graphics card, built on the Ampere architecture. It has 2,304 shading units, 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, 224.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 1.76 GHz and a 130 W board power rating. It scores 11,884 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (FL 12_2), OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4 and CUDA compute capability 8.6.

Ampere

9/10 key specs recorded · 34 facts

Depth: 41 recorded fields, 4 features, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 9 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)

Shading units

2,304cores

18 SMs

Memory

8 GB

GDDR6 · 128-bit

Boost clock

1.76 GHz

1.52 GHz base

Board power

130 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM scores 11,884 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 90.7% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #257), measured across 627 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 984.

PassMark G3D Mark

11,884

Rank #257
Faster than 90.7% of 2,658 GPUs
627 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 138 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 82.4% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 60 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 80.5% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 86 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 82% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 58 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 84.1% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 5,740 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 85.8% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM averages DirectX 9 138 fps, DirectX 10 60 fps, DirectX 11 86 fps, DirectX 12 58 fps and GPU Compute 5,740 ops/s, across 627 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Desktop

Bus interface PCIe 4.0 x8

Max memory 8 GB

Core clock 1515 MHz

Memory clock 1750 MHz

DirectX 12_2

OpenGL 4.6

Max TDP 130 W

First benchmarked 2022-07-26

Samples 627

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM states the PCIe 4.0 x8 interface, up to 8 GB of memory, a core clock of 1515 MHz, DirectX 12_2 and OpenGL 4.6, first benchmarked on 2022-07-26. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Ampere

Codename Not recorded

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM is based on the Ampere architecture.

Shader configuration

Shading units 2,304

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors 18

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 72

Render output units (ROPs) 32

Ray tracing cores 18

Tensor / AI cores 72

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM has 2,304 shading units, 18 streaming multiprocessors, 72 texture mapping units, 32 render output units, 18 ray tracing cores and 72 tensor cores.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 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 OEM.

Clock speeds

Base clock 1.52 GHz

Boost clock 1.76 GHz

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM runs at a base clock of 1.52 GHz and boosts to 1.76 GHz.

Memory

Size 8 GB

Type GDDR6

Bus width 128-bit

Bandwidth 224.0 GB/s

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

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM has a board power rating of 130 W and it connects over PCIe 4.0 x8.

Board power (TDP) 130 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 4.0 x8

Market

Launched Not recorded

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series GeForce RTX 30 Series

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 11,884

PassMark G2D 984

Rank #257

Samples 627

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (FL 12_2), OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4 and CUDA compute capability 8.6.

DirectX 12 Ultimate (FL 12_2)

OpenGL 4.6

Vulkan 1.4

CUDA compute capability 8.6

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

Features

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM has 4 supported features recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Rendering

Supported: DirectX 12 Ultimate

Microsoft's top DirectX 12 feature tier, covering hardware ray tracing, mesh shaders, variable-rate shading and sampler feedback.
Supported: Hardware ray tracing 2nd Generation

Dedicated GPU hardware that speeds up ray-traced lighting, reflections and shadows in supported games and apps.

Ray tracing units: 18

Not listed (2)

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

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and Hardware ray tracing (2nd Generation) 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 3rd Generation

NVIDIA's dedicated matrix-math units used for AI workloads such as DLSS and machine-learning inference.

Tensor cores: 72

Not listed (1)

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

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM supports CUDA (Compute capability 8.6) and Tensor cores (3rd Generation) under Compute and AI.

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM have?

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

How much power does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM use and what power supply does it need?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM has a board power rating of 130 W.

How fast is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM scores 11,884 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 90.7% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #257. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 58 fps.