NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 10% higher core clock speed: 1455 MHz vs 1320 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
  • Around 48% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 170 Watt
  • Around 7% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1875 MHz (15 Gbps effective)
Launch date 2023 vs 12 Jan 2021
Core clock speed 1455 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt vs 170 Watt
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1875 MHz (15 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

  • Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1777 MHz vs 1755 MHz
  • Around 42% higher texture fill rate: 199.0 GTexel/s vs 140.4 GTexel/s
  • Around 40% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 2560
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 6 GB
  • Around 55% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 971 vs 626
  • Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17107 vs 14436
  • Around 19% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 88251 vs 73914
  • Around 7% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 8783 vs 8225
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 1777 MHz vs 1755 MHz
Texture fill rate 199.0 GTexel/s vs 140.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines 3584 vs 2560
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 6 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 971 vs 626
PassMark - G3D Mark 17107 vs 14436
Geekbench - OpenCL 88251 vs 73914
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8783 vs 8225

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
626
971
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
14436
17107
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
73914
88251
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
8225
8783
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
PassMark - G2D Mark 626 971
PassMark - G3D Mark 14436 17107
Geekbench - OpenCL 73914 88251
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8225 8783
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 299.369
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4021.382
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 28.778
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 188.944
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1152.664
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 22495
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 22495
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD107 GA106
Launch date 2023 12 Jan 2021
Place in performance rating 138 136
Launch price (MSRP) $329
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1755 MHz 1777 MHz
Core clock speed 1455 MHz 1320 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 140.4 GFLOPS (1:64) 199.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.986 TFLOPS (1:1) 12.74 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.986 TFLOPS 12.74 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 3584
Pixel fill rate 56.16 GPixel/s 85.30 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 140.4 GTexel/s 199.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt 170 Watt
Transistor count 13250 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 12-pin
Length 242 mm (9.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Width 112 mm (4.4 inches)

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.2
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.0 GB/s 360 GB/s
Memory bus width 96 bit 192 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 1875 MHz (15 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6