NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB
Overview
The GeForce RTX 3050 is the smallest desktop Ampere card that still carries third-generation tensor cores, and it is worth knowing about mainly as a floor: 8 GB of GDDR6 and 130 W make it the cheapest way to get CUDA tensor acceleration into a machine that has no spare power budget. Throughput is 9.1 TFLOPS of FP32 and 18.2 TFLOPS of dense BF16, roughly a seventh of an RTX 3090, so it is a card for small models, embeddings and experimentation rather than training. The GeForce tensor restriction applies here as everywhere in the GeForce RTX 30 line, meaning TF32 matches the shader rate while INT8 and INT4 run at full speed. Watch the name: NVIDIA also ships a 6 GB 70 W card and an OEM variant with fewer cores under the same RTX 3050 badge.
Performance
Peak theoretical throughput by precision type
| Precision | Dense | 2:4 Sparse |
|---|---|---|
FP64 64-bit floating point | 0.1TFLOPS | Structured sparsity is a tensor-core feature; this vector precision has no sparse form |
FP32 32-bit floating point | 9.1TFLOPS | Structured sparsity is a tensor-core feature; this vector precision has no sparse form |
TF32 TensorFloat-32 | 9.1TFLOPS | 18TFLOPS |
BF16 Brain Float 16 | 18TFLOPS | 36TFLOPS |
FP16 16-bit floating point | 18TFLOPS | 36TFLOPS |
FP8 | No verified data available | The part supports 2:4 sparsity, but the vendor publishes no sparse figure for this precision |
FP6 | No verified data available | The part supports 2:4 sparsity, but the vendor publishes no sparse figure for this precision |
FP4 | No verified data available | The part supports 2:4 sparsity, but the vendor publishes no sparse figure for this precision |
INT8 8-bit integer | 73TOPS | 146TOPS |
INT4 4-bit integer | 146TOPS | 291TOPS |
Per watt divides the dense figure by the 130 W board power. Where only a sparse figure exists, the cell says so.
The GeForce RTX 3050 8GB in the GPU landscape
Peak FP16 TFLOPS (dense) against TDP, single-GPU parts tracked by Flopper
Higher and further left is better: more half-precision throughput for less power.
Specifications
Architecture
Ampere
Form Factor
PCIe
Launch Year
2022
Process Node
8nm
Memory
8 GB GDDR6
Bandwidth
No verified data available
TDP
130 W
Max Power
130 W
CUDA Cores
2,560
Spec Confidence
Vendor claimed
Full Specifications
| Compute Engine | |
|---|---|
| CUDA Cores | 2,560 |
| Tensor Cores | 80 (3rd Gen) |
| Streaming Multiprocessors | 20 |
| Base Clock | 1.55 GHz |
| Boost Clock | 1.78 GHz |
| Memory | |
| VRAM | 8 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 |
| Bandwidth | No verified data available |
| Interface Width | 128-bit |
| Interconnect & I/O | |
| PCIe | 4.0 x16 |
| Power & Thermal | |
| TDP | 130 W |
| Max Board Power | 130 W |
| Power Connector | 1x PCIe 8-pin |
| Cooling | Active |
| Enterprise Features | |
| ECC Memory | No |
| Sparsity | Yes |
| Compute APIs | CUDA, DirectX 12, Vulkan, OpenGL |
| General | |
| Form Factor | PCIe |
| Architecture | Ampere |
| Process Node | 8nm |
| Launch Year | 2022 |
Datasheet & Resources
Flopper Datasheet
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB specifications, generated from our database. Printable.
Vendor product page
NVIDIA documentation for the GeForce RTX 3050 8GB
GeForce RTX 3050 Specifications
NVIDIA · Latest version
NVIDIA Developer Documentation
Technical specs, programming guides
Data Provenance
Every figure traced to a source
Primary Source
- Document
- GeForce RTX 3050 Specifications
- Publisher
- NVIDIA
- Published
- No verified data available
Data Quality
- Spec confidence
- Vendor claimed
- Clock basis
- Boost
- Core precisions with figures
- 6 of 9
- Normalization
- All values in TFLOPS
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many TFLOPS does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 have?
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 delivers 9.1 TFLOPS FP32 and 18 TFLOPS FP16 at peak. Flopper does not currently have a verified FP8 throughput figure for it.
What is the power consumption of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050?
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 has a TDP (Thermal Design Power) rating of 130 watts.
How much memory does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 have?
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 is equipped with 8 GB of VRAM. Flopper does not currently have a verified memory bandwidth figure for it.
What architecture is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 based on?
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 is based on the Ampere architecture, launched in 2022.
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