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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

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The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop is a dedicated graphics card from the Blackwell family for laptops, which was presented by Team Green in June 2025. It uses the GB207 chip.

Like the RTX 4050 Laptop GPU, the GPU offers 2,560 unified shaders (CUDA cores) combined with a 128-bit memory bus for 8 GB GDDR7 graphics memory.

Other features of the GPU include native 5th generation ray tracing cores, PCIe 5 support, DisplayPort 2.1a and 440 TOPS AI performance (thanks to the built-in Tensor cores).

The performance without DLSS frame generation should be similar to the old RTX 4060 Laptop GPU laptop GPU. The RTX 5060 is 21 - 22% faster at 115 W (incl. Dynamic Boost) in 3DMark tests (via Videocardz). As usual, performance is heavily dependent on power consumption (TGP) and cooling. Therefore, there will also be significantly slower models in laptops.

The chip is produced at TSMC using the 4nm process (4N). The power consumption (TGP) is specified at 35-100 watts (115 watts incl. Dynamic Boost 2.0).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU

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The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU (mobile) is a modern Ada Lovelace variant of the RTX 3050 4GB Laptop GPU. However it offers greatly reduced cores (only 1,792) and a small 64 Bit memory bus for 4 GB GDDR6. At the time of release in mid 2024, the GPU was only intended for the Indian market.

The performance should be only similar to the old 4GB RTX 3050 Laptop GPU based on Ampere, due to the lower core count and small memory bus. 

The AD106 / AD107 chip is manufactured on the modern 5nm process at TSMC (4N) and therefore the GPU should offer a better power consumption than the old RTX 3050 variants (based on the Samsung 8N process). The power consumption is rated between 35 and 50 Watt for the 3050 A and therefore suited for thin multimedia laptops.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 LaptopNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU
GeForce RTX 3000 Series
GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop compare 10496 @ 0.99 - 1.52 GHz256 Bit @ 28000 MHz
GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop compare 8192 @ 0.98 - 2.29 GHz256 Bit @ 28000 MHz
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop compare 5888 192 Bit @ 32000 MHz
GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop compare 4608 @ 2.24 - 2.52 GHz128 Bit @ 32000 MHz
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop compare 3328 @ 0.95 - 1.46 GHz128 Bit @ 24000 MHz
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop 2560 @ 1.02 - 2.66 GHz128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti compare 10752 @ 1.56 - 1.86 GHz384 Bit @ 21000 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 compare 10496 @ 1.4 - 1.7 GHz384 Bit @ 19500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti compare 10240 @ 1.37 - 1.67 GHz384 Bit @ 19000 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB compare 8960/ cores @ 1.26 - 1.71 GHz384 Bit @ 19000 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 compare 8704 @ 1.45 - 1.71 GHz320 Bit @ 19000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti compare 6144 @ 1.58 - 1.77 GHz256 Bit @ 19000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU compare 7424 @ 0.98 - 1.59 GHz256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 compare 5888 @ 1.5 - 1.73 GHz256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU compare 6144 @ 0.78 - 1.25 GHz256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti compare 4864 @ 1.41 - 1.67 GHz256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU compare 5888 @ 0.92 - 1.48 GHz256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU compare 5120 @ 0.78 - 1.29 GHz256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 compare 3584 @ 1.32 - 1.78 GHz192 Bit @ 15000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q compare 6144 @ 0.78 - 1.25 GHz256 Bit @ 6000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q compare 5120 @ 1.29 GHz256 Bit
GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU compare 3840 @ 0.82 - 1.7 GHz192 Bit @ 14000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q compare 3840 @ 1.28 GHz192 Bit
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 compare 2560 @ 1.55 - 1.78 GHz128 Bit Bit @ 1750 MHz
GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU compare 2560 @ 1.22 - 1.49 GHz128 Bit @ 12000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU compare 2560 @ 1.24 - 1.49 GHz96 Bit @ 12000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU 1792 64 Bit
GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Laptop GPU compare 2048 @ 1.24 - 1.5 GHz128 Bit @ 12000 MHz
CodenameGN22-X2
ArchitectureBlackwellAda Lovelace
Pipelines2560 - unified1792 - unified
TMUs80
ROPs32
Raytracing Cores20
Tensor / AI Cores80
Core Speed1020 - 2662 (Boost) MHz
CacheL1: 2.5 MB, L2: 32 MB
Memory Speed14000 effective = 1750 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR6GDDR6
Max. Amount of Memory8 GB4 GB
Shared Memorynono
Memory Bandwidth224 GB/s
APIDirectX 12_2DirectX 12_2, Shader 6.7, OpenGL 4.6
Power Consumption100 Watt (35 - 100 Watt TGP)45 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)
technology5 nm5 nm
PCIe54.0
Displays4 Displays (max.), DisplayPort 2.1aHDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a
Notebook Sizemedium sizedmedium sized
Date of Announcement02.01.2025 26.07.2024
Link to Manufacturer Pagewww.nvidia.com
PredecessorNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPUGeForce RTX 3050 4GB Laptop GPU
FeaturesNVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, Resizable BAR, NVIDIA Broadcast, NVIDIA Ansel, NVIDIA ShadowPlay, NVIDIA G-SYNC, Advanced Optimus, Nvidia Max-Q, Dynamic Boost

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