GeForce RTX 3050
Nvidia graphics card · GeForce RTX 30 series · launched December 2022
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Launch price in today's dollars
The GeForce RTX 3050 launched at $249 in 2022. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $282 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 13% rise over 4 years. At its launch price that is 563 Blender points per $100.
Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2022 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.
Blender rendering score
Median score 1,402 (middle half of runs 1,221–1,471) across 616 community runs on Blender 4.x with the OPTIX backend. That is #53 of 103 graphics cards in our dataset with a score, and #9 of 10 in the GeForce RTX 30 series.
This is a rendering benchmark (samples per minute over the monster, junkshop and classroom scenes), not a gaming benchmark. It says how fast the part renders in Blender's Cycles engine and nothing about frame rates. Source: Blender Open Data, CC0, snapshot 2026-09-06.
Specifications
| Vendor | Nvidia |
|---|---|
| Series | GeForce RTX 30 series |
| Launched | December 2022 |
| Launch price | $249 |
| Architecture | Ampere |
| Chip | GA107-350-A1 |
| Memory | 8 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 128-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 224 GB/s |
| Core clock | 1,552 MHz (boost 1,777 MHz) |
| FP32 compute | 9.1 TFLOPS |
| Rated power | 115 W (TDP) |
| Transistors | 8.7 billion |
| Die size | 200 mm² |
| Bus interface | PCIe 4 x8 |
| Tier | 50-class |
The Nvidia 50-class over time
Nvidia graphics cards in the same tier around this one, oldest first, re-releases left out. Prices in launch dollars and in 2026 dollars; scores are Blender 4.x medians where they exist.
| Part | Year | Launch price | In 2026 $ | Blender |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce GTS 450 | 2010 | $129 | $196 | — |
| GeForce GTX 550 Ti | 2011 | $149 | $219 | — |
| GeForce GTX 650 | 2012 | $109 | $157 | — |
| GeForce GTX 650 Ti | 2012 | $149 | $215 | — |
| GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost | 2013 | $169 | $240 | — |
| GeForce GTX 750 | 2014 | $119 | $166 | 87 |
| GeForce GTX 750 Ti | 2014 | $149 | $208 | 103 |
| GeForce GTX 950 | 2015 | $159 | $222 | 116 |
| GeForce GTX 950 Low Power | 2016 | $159 | $219 | — |
| GeForce GTX 1050 | 2016 | $109 | $150 | 169 |
| GeForce GTX 1050 Ti | 2016 | $139 | $192 | 210 |
| GeForce GTX 1650 | 2019 | $149 | $193 | 429 |
| GeForce GTX 1650 Super | 2019 | $159 | $206 | 547 |
| GeForce RTX 3050 | 2022 | $249 | $282 | 1,402 |
| GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB | 2024 | $179 | $189 | — |
| GeForce RTX 5050 | 2025 | $249 | $256 | 2,876 |
Compare with
- GeForce RTX 3060 · 2022 · $329 · 2,174
- GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB · 2021 · $329
- GeForce RTX 4060 · 2023 · $299 · 3,124
- Radeon RX 6500 XT · 2022 · $199 · 467
- Radeon RX 6650 XT · 2022 · $399 · 1,138
- Radeon RX 6750 XT · 2022 · $549 · 1,632
- Radeon RX 6600 · 2021 · $329 · 972
- Radeon RX 6600 XT · 2021 · $379 · 1,105
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