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GTX 1050 Ti vs RTX 3050

Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti vs Nvidia RTX 3050

Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Pascal and one Ampere: 4 GB GDDR5 against 8 GB GDDR6 and 2x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 3050.

At a glance

Updated 45 minutes ago

Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti

Memory: 4 GB; GDDR5
Memory bandwidth: 112 GB/s
From: $0.02 /GPU/hr; 1 provider

Nvidia RTX 3050

Memory: 8 GB; GDDR6
Memory bandwidth: 224 GB/s
From: $0.07 /GPU/hr; 1 provider

Price comparison

Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.

Billing	GTX 1050 Ti	RTX 3050	Difference
On-demand	$0.02	$0.07	3.5x more expensive on RTX 3050
Spot	$0.01	$0.03	2x more expensive on RTX 3050
Median	$0.02	$0.07	3.5x more expensive on RTX 3050

Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Price history

GTX 1050 Ti vs RTX 3050 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	GTX 1050 Ti	RTX 3050	Difference
Memory
Capacity	4 GB GDDR5	8 GB GDDR6	2x more on RTX 3050
Bandwidth	112 GB/s	224 GB/s	2x higher on RTX 3050
Bus width	128-bit	128-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16		18.2 TFLOPS
INT8	Not supported	72.8 TOPS	RTX 3050 only
FP32	2.1 TFLOPS	9.1 TFLOPS	4.3x higher on RTX 3050
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	75 W	130 W	1.7x higher on RTX 3050
Released	Q4 2016	Q1 2022	5 years newer on RTX 3050
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: GTX 1050 Ti datasheet and RTX 3050 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

Provider	GTX 1050 Ti /GPU/hr	RTX 3050 /GPU/hr
Salad	On-Demand $0.0200	On-Demand $0.07

Access 60,000+ daily active GPUs across 191 countries, from $0.02/hour

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Nvidia GTX 1060

6 GB GDDR5 · 71% more bandwidth than the GTX 1050 Ti

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Nvidia RTX 4060

8 GB GDDR6 · 21% more bandwidth than the RTX 3050

From $0.08 /GPU/hr Compare
Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti

8 GB GDDR6 · 2x the bandwidth of the RTX 3050

From $0.07 /GPU/hr Compare

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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3050 on Sept. 7, 2026.