Laptop vs Desktop (RTX 3050) - The Difference Shocked Me!

The difference between Nvidia’s RTX 3050 desktop and laptop GPUs was bigger than I was expecting. I’ve compared both in 15 games and 3D modeling/rendering workloads to find out the differences!

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Laptop vs Desktop RTX 3050 Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:10 3050 is Different
0:49 Video Sponsor - Gigabyte!
1:28 GPU Spec Differences
1:58 Laptop Test System
2:25 Desktop Test System
2:42 CPU Differences & Cinebench
3:37 GPU Power Limit Differences
4:12 Thermals
4:33 Fan Noise Difference
4:48 Power Draw
5:03 Temperatures
5:20 PCIe Bandwidth
5:31 15 Games Compared
10:27 3050 Desktop vs Laptop - 15 Game Average
11:01 Content Creation (Blender/V-Ray/DaVinci Resolve)
12:34 Price Difference
14:04 There Are More Important Factors…
15:00 Should You Even Buy a 3050?
15:27 More Desktop vs Laptop Comparisons!

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[JarrodsTech]

Check out another laptop vs desktop GPU comparison next:

0:25 Obviously meant to say "3080 desktop 45% faster vs 3080 LAPTOP" and not desktop 😎

[kanishkmathur]

Really hoping the next gen 4050 comes with 6gb vram, 4gb won't be enough for the upcoming games

[vesh]

The difference between the 3070 laptop and desktop surprises me quite a bit, especially since I have a 3070 Desktop

[sonicboy]

The desktop 3050 is really more in line with the 3050 Ti, anyway.

[FriendlyPCGamers]

Before watching, i can tell, the difference is big in 3050.
Also, 3060 is one of the best gpu ever manufactured if sold on msrp not scams and pimpness. The desktop 3060 is awesome at it MSRP. The price to performance ration is a win win.

[probablemisclick]

Laptop vs Desktop is utterly use case dependent.

Personally, when someone asks me what to get if they are at ALL unsure about the need for mobility, laptop. Doubly so if they’re not tech savvy, as they can easily bring it to me wherever I am to tinker with. I’ve set up multiple people with hubs + laptop stands as desktop replacements in the last few years, all VERY happy. My SIL never leaves the house so we built her a ballin 10700k/3070 rainbow puke desktop a bit ago, also very happy.

TLDR: PCMR can suck it, a good 3060/3070 laptop is honestly fine for 90% of people, but a desktop will always give you more FPS per dollar if prices aren’t crazy, and do it much quieter.

[SeifSoudani]

I'd love to see a comparison between a 3050Ti laptop VS a 3050 desktop, since they have the same amount of Cuda cores (2560), it would be a slightly more fair comparison. I have a laptop with a 3050Ti with a 12700H Intel CPU, and with a stable overclock on the GPU I'm able to play most games at 1440p on an external monitor, the additional mobility is a no brainer for me.

[Mickapel]

Comparing to GTX 10 and 16 series, the diference, in 50 lineup, between desktop & laptop on RTX 30 series is shameful

[aisjdoaidf]

What's surprising/shocking is the differences are greater as you go up the ladder from 3060 all the way to 3080 when comparing desktop vs laptop gpu. But the 3050 has differences as the 3080's. One would expect it to have even less differences if any at all considering the 3060s are a really close match.

[joelconolly]

Even at 6GB difference the 3060 laptop isn't as slow as it's desktop counterparts, and seeing the almost similar wattage of the 3060 laptop to the desktop and the slightly higher CUDA, the laptop 3060 is possibly the closest to it's desktop brothers than any laptop GPU produced so far, although it'll probably change in the next generation as per usual.
The VRAM for the 3050 laptop is probably the reason it's far behind the desktop side, and whatever is different to eachother. I suggest getting it only if you plan on entering PC gaming, getting boost for games that are CPU limited like DOTA or getting help in application that requires dGPU acceleration. But not more.

[mbvglider]

Great video! Now that you've done basically compared the entire stack of laptop vs desktop GPUs, it'd be cool if you could make a matrix for people to compare laptop performance vs. desktop performance outside of just these model numbers. Like if you get a laptop 3070, which desktop GPUs do it compare to, etc.

[AlexRubio]

Right now the AMD 6600 is the no brainer like HU and Jared said. Go for that

[GameOver-nmus]

I bought a laptop with these exact specs (lower power consumption tho) and I am absolutely happy with it, I can play every game I care about with high settings with ease, plus it's for school anyways so I am lucky to even get something close to it, generally no regrets whatsoever with buying a 3050 laptop, it does the job and it does it extremely well

[kishangurung]

there is a mistake at 00:31 if you see in the screen there is 3080 desktop in both side but not that it really matters

[thanosthemadtitan]

Ooooh yes I was so waiting for this. Please do more videos like this

[christianb]

Nice video Jarrod!
Keep them coming.
This video shows how good laptops are getting. Especially in comparison to full grown desktop models.
Especially a 3060 laptop model for round about 900€ is good portable and performing model for the next years.
Can not wait to see more midrange laptops.

[firstname]

1:40 -- they're practically different cards

[beneficialhistory]

Rtx 4050 140w vs rtx 3050 desktop can be interesting

[tablettablete]

These comparisons are awsome! I just wonder what would be the results, if we put a power limit on Desktop.

[maito]

I would have loved if you had brought in the laptop rtx 3050 ti as well.