NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 7% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 80 Watt
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 8045 vs 7929
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 8045 vs 7929
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2021 vs 12 Jan 2021
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 80 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8923 vs 8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8045 vs 7929
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8923 vs 8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8045 vs 7929

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

  • Around 26% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 712 MHz
  • Around 35% higher boost clock speed: 1425 MHz vs 1057 MHz
  • 2.5x more texture fill rate: 171.0 GTexel/s vs 67.65 GTexel/s
  • Around 88% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2048
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)
  • Around 31% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 20611 vs 15760
  • Around 31% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 20611 vs 15760
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 900 MHz vs 712 MHz
Boost clock speed 1425 MHz vs 1057 MHz
Texture fill rate 171.0 GTexel/s vs 67.65 GTexel/s
Pipelines 3840 vs 2048
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20611 vs 15760
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20611 vs 15760

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
15760
20611
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8923
8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8045
7929
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
15760
20611
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8923
8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8045
7929
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
PassMark - G3D Mark 6831
PassMark - G2D Mark 403
Geekbench - OpenCL 50663
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 165.993
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1980.866
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 14.641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 135.641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 745.481
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 15760 20611
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8923 8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8045 7929
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 15760 20611
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8923 8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8045 7929
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 421

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Ampere
Code name GA107 GA106
Launch date 2021 12 Jan 2021
Place in performance rating 248 117
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1057 MHz 1425 MHz
Core clock speed 712 MHz 900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 67.65 GFLOPS (1:64) 171.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 4.329 TFLOPS (1:1) 10.94 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.329 TFLOPS 10.94 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2048 3840
Pixel fill rate 42.28 GPixel/s 68.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 67.65 GTexel/s 171.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 80 Watt
Transistor count 12000 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs Portable Device Dependent

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None
Width IGP
Height PCIe 4.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12.2 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.6 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s 336.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 192 bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective) 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready