NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 — Benchmarks & Specs

Bottom line: how fast is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050?

SpecPicks median: 28.4 tokens/sec across 6 cited single-user runs of 7-9B dense models at 4-bit (Q4) under ollama (range 23.9–37.8 tok/s), from LocalScore.ai, llmrun.dev (5 runs). At the $259.99 Amazon price of the cheapest linked listing (checked 2026-10-14 10:15 UTC; prices change), that is 109.0 tok/s per $1,000. At 1440p Highest, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 averages 68 fps in Death Stranding, per TechGage. For local LLM inference it generates 23.9 tokens/sec running gemma2:9b at q4_K_M under ollama, per llmrun.dev. In 3DMark Fire Strike it scores 15,843 points, per Club386. Its 8 GB of VRAM is the binding constraint for local inference: the gemma2:9b run above (9B parameters) is the largest model on file at 4-bit quantization on this card.

Every figure above is a row in the tables below, and each row links out to the review or public benchmark database the number was taken from; the SpecPicks median is computed here from the runs it names, each a row in the AI table, and the per-$1,000 figure divides it by the dated listing price. SpecPicks aggregates published measurements; it does not report first-party benchmark runs.