Why is rtx 3050 so weak?

Although both of these cards are based on the same GA106 GPU, Nvidia's RTX 3050 is considerably weaker. It has just 2,560 CUDA cores compared to the 3,584 of the RTX 3060, and a 60% lower memory bandwidth (224GB/s compared to 360GB/s.)

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2024-02-05 07:24:49

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Can rtx 3050 run doom?
The experience of playing Doom Eternal through a 3 year old GeForce RTX 3050 is going to get a very strong 102 FPS. Which is at High settings on 1080p performance. With such a great performance found in 1080p we step things up to 1440p.
2024-01-12 10:52:40

How weak is rtx 3050?
An RTX 3050 can easily run all games today on 1080p Medium/High with RTX, to get about 60–90 FPS. Maybe even upto 120FPS without RTX. For AAA games, that is. You can reduce the settings to get higher FPS, or older/lighter games like CS:GO, Valorant, Fortnite can get even more.
2023-11-27 09:14:22

Is rtx 3050 vs 3060?
The RTX 3060 is much better than the 3050 for 1440p gaming if you don't enable DLSS, though. Also Read: RTX 3060 Ti vs 3070: Which GPU Should You Get? Benchmark results show that the 3060 performs about 36% better than the 3050 on average at 1440p.
2023-10-11 19:11:46

Can rtx 3050 run minecraft rtx?
Yes it can. Every GPU in Nvidia's RTX lineup and some in GTX lineup can supports real-time ray tracing technology. Many games already support Nvidia's ray tracing and Minecraft Bedrock Edition is one of them.
2023-02-03 11:50:17

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