70% of GPUs from surveyed systems match or beat the GeForce RTX 3050
Steam Hardware Survey, October 2026
- As fast or faster
- 69.5%
- Uncertain
- 5.2%
- Slower
- 25.3%
- Share of GPUs from surveyed systems
- 3.1%
- Performance
- Tier 20 of 55
- Type
- Desktop
Supported features
- Ray tracing
Supported
DXR 1.2 · 2nd-generation RT cores
- DLSS Ray Reconstruction
- Upscaling
Supported
- DLSS Super Resolution
- FSR 1 (spatial) · compatible
- FSR 2/3 upscaling (temporal) · compatible
- XeSS Super Resolution · compatible
- NVIDIA Image Scaling (driver)
- Frame generation
Limited
- FSR 3 Frame Generation · compatible
- Mesh shaders
Supported
DirectX 12
- DirectX 12 Ultimate
Supported
Feature level 12_2 · Shader Model 6.9 · Vulkan 1.4
Ampere architecture · Feature support across GPUs