NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti
Ampere · 2021
The RTX 3050 Ti brought ray tracing and DLSS down into genuinely affordable gaming laptops when it launched in 2021. Its 2560 Ampere cores and 4GB of GDDR6 across a 128-bit bus are enough for 1080p gaming at medium-to-high settings in most titles, with DLSS helping it punch above its weight in supported games, though it's not built for maxed-out settings or anything demanding at higher resolutions.
NVIDIA lets laptop makers configure this chip anywhere from 35W to 80W, so a budget thin-and-light running the lower end of that range will trail a dedicated gaming laptop running it at 80W by a noticeable margin - worth checking before assuming two "RTX 3050 Ti" laptops perform the same.
Ampere brought this card DLSS 2 - Super Resolution upscaling, DLAA, and Ray Reconstruction, with Frame Generation still two generations away at this point. Resizable BAR is supported too, a small but genuine efficiency gain from letting the CPU see the GPU's entire VRAM pool instead of accessing it in limited windows.
This GPU name covers more than one real-world configuration
NVIDIA's official TGP range for this GPU is 35W-80W depending on the laptop model. This listing shows a typical configuration (80W) - actual performance varies meaningfully across laptops at the low and high ends of that range.
Mid-range
Comfortable 1080p gaming and everyday creative tasks.
2560 Cores
4 GB GDDR6 memory.
Boost up to 1485 MHz
Push performance beyond base clock.
GDDR6
Soldered (Mobile)
Configurable / Multiple Variants
Real-world specs can differ by laptop model - see the note above.
Our Verdict
The NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti is a mid-range dedicated GPU with 4GB of GDDR6 memory, suited to mainstream gaming and everyday graphics tasks.
