Nvidia RTX 3050 vs Nvidia RTX 5050

The RTX 5050 is newer and has 43% more bandwidth, with the same 8 GB of memory.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

RTX 3050: 8 GB

RTX 5050: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

43% higher on RTX 5050

RTX 3050: 224 GB/s

RTX 5050: 320 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

Identical

RTX 3050: $0.07 /GPU/hr

RTX 5050: $0.07 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	RTX 3050	RTX 5050	Difference
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for on-demand and spot on the RTX 3050 and on-demand and spot on the RTX 5050: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

RTX 3050 vs RTX 5050 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 3050	RTX 5050	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	Identical
Bandwidth	224 GB/s	320 GB/s	43% higher on RTX 5050
Bus width	128-bit	128-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	210.5 TFLOPS	RTX 5050 only
FP8	Not supported	52.6 TFLOPS	RTX 5050 only
FP16 / BF16	18.2 TFLOPS	26.3 TFLOPS	45% higher on RTX 5050
INT8	72.8 TOPS	105.3 TOPS	45% higher on RTX 5050
FP32	9.1 TFLOPS	13.2 TFLOPS	45% higher on RTX 5050
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	130 W	130 W	Identical
Released	Q1 2022	Q3 2025	3 years newer on RTX 5050
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8