Yeston
Its 70W bus-powered design and compact 158mm length make it a standout for low-profile builds, delivering RTX 3050 performance without an external power connector. The included half-height bracket and 6GB of GDDR6 memory enable 4K output in slim, space-constrained systems. This card is best for users upgrading office mini-towers or SFF PCs for light 1080p gaming and media playback.
GPU GeForce RTX 3050
VRAM 6GB GDDR6
Boost Clock 1470 MHz
TDP 70 W
Memory Bus 96 bit
Ray Tracing Yes
Class consumer
30 Overall Score
No current retailer price
Snapshot
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Strong efficiency (91st percentile) 91st
- Strong affordability (83rd percentile) 83rd
Cons
- Below average thermal (18th percentile)
- Below average compute (18th percentile)
- Below average ai (19th percentile)
- Below average vram (23rd percentile)
The proof
Performance
Specifications
Full Specifications
Chipset
| GPU Chipset | GeForce RTX 3050 |
| Brand | NVIDIA |
| Architecture | Ampere |
| Class | consumer |
| Process | 8 |
Memory
| VRAM | 6 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 |
| Memory Bus | 96 |
| Bandwidth | 192 |
Compute
| CUDA Cores | 2048 |
| Tensor Cores | 64 |
| RT Cores | 16 |
| Base Clock | 1042 |
| Boost Clock | 1470 |
| FP16 TFLOPS | 4.813 |
| FP32 TFLOPS | 4.813 |
Performance
| PassMark G3D | 9498 |
| GPU Compute | 6442 |
Power & Cooling
| TDP | 70 |
| Recommended PSU | 400 |
| Power Connectors | None |
| Cooler | Fan |
Connectivity
| Interface | PCI-Express 4.0 x8 |
| DisplayPort | 1 |
| HDMI | 1 |
| Max Resolution | 7680 x 4320 |
Physical
| Length | 158 |
| Form Factor | Low Profile |
Features
| Ray Tracing | Yes |
| VR Ready | Yes |
| DirectX | 12 |
vs Competition
| Spec | Yeston | ASUS TUF Gaming TUF-RTX5090-32G-GAMING | MSI Ventus RTX 5070 Ti 16G VENTUS 3X PZ OC | Gigabyte AORUS GV-N5080AORUS M-16GD | ZOTAC APOCALYPSE ZT-B50800C-10P | Sapphire NITRO+ 11322-01-40G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chipset | GeForce RTX 3050 | GeForce RTX 5090 | GeForce RTX 5070 Ti | GeForce RTX 5080 | GeForce RTX 5080 | Radeon RX 7900 XTX |
| Vram | 6GB GDDR6 | 32GB GDDR7 | 16GB GDDR7 | 16GB GDDR7 | 16GB GDDR7 | 24GB GDDR6 |
| Boost Clock Mhz | 1470 | 2407 | 2482 | 2805 | 2730 | 2680 |
| Tdp W | 70 | 575 | 300 | 360 | 360 | 339 |
| Memory Bus Bits | 96 | 512 | 256 | 256 | 256 | 384 |
| Ray Tracing | true | true | true | true | true | true |
| GPU Class | consumer | consumer | consumer | consumer | consumer | consumer |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
| Product | AI | Rt | Vram | Raster | Compute | Feature | Thermal | Efficiency | Connectivity | Social Proof | Affordability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yeston | 18.8 | 25.6 | 23.3 | 24.5 | 18.3 | 46.1 | 17.8 | 90.9 | 29.3 | 55.2 | 82.7 |
| ASUS TUF Gaming TUF-RTX5090-32G-GAMING Compare | 96.8 | 90 | 97.5 | 98.6 | 97.5 | 96.4 | 72.8 | 26.8 | 99.2 | 99.1 | 3.4 |
| MSI Ventus RTX 5070 Ti 16G VENTUS 3X PZ OC Compare | 79 | 92.1 | 85.4 | 88.5 | 87.8 | 96.4 | 91.5 | 73.4 | 94.1 | 88.9 | 21.3 |
| Gigabyte AORUS GV-N5080AORUS M-16GD Compare | 85.1 | 95.2 | 88.5 | 94.1 | 93.1 | 96.4 | 91.5 | 58.8 | 94.1 | 88.9 | 15.6 |
| ZOTAC APOCALYPSE ZT-B50800C-10P Compare | 85.1 | 97.5 | 88.5 | 94.1 | 93.1 | 96.4 | 91.5 | 58.8 | 94.1 | 99.1 | 19.6 |
| Sapphire NITRO+ 11322-01-40G Compare | 94.7 | 96.1 | 91.5 | 83.6 | 95.5 | 84.4 | 91.5 | 54.4 | 98.7 | 78.4 | 15.9 |
Usage Scores
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