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) 8 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 57% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 971 vs 620
  • Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17107 vs 14511
  • Around 20% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 88177 vs 73510
  • Around 7% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 8780 vs 8238
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 620
PassMark - G3D Mark 17107 vs 14511
Geekbench - OpenCL 88177 vs 73510
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8780 vs 8238

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
620
971
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
14511
17107
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
73510
88177
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
8238
8780
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
PassMark - G2D Mark 620 971
PassMark - G3D Mark 14511 17107
Geekbench - OpenCL 73510 88177
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8238 8780
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 138 137
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