NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 62% higher core clock speed: 1455 MHz vs 900 MHz
Around 23% higher boost clock speed: 1755 MHz vs 1425 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Launch date	2023 vs 12 Jan 2021
Core clock speed	1455 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed	1755 MHz vs 1425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 8 nm
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Around 22% higher texture fill rate: 171.0 GTexel/s vs 140.4 GTexel/s
Around 50% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2560
Around 44% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 115 Watt

Texture fill rate	171.0 GTexel/s vs 140.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines	3840 vs 2560
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 115 Watt

Compare benchmarks

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

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	630
PassMark - G3D Mark	14441
Geekbench - OpenCL	74538
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1788
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		20611
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		20611
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		7929
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		7929
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		8917
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		8917

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Ampere
Code name	AD107	GA106
Launch date	2023	12 Jan 2021
Place in performance rating	167	117
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1755 MHz	1425 MHz
Core clock speed	1455 MHz	900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	140.4 GFLOPS (1:64)	171.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	8.986 TFLOPS (1:1)	10.94 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	8.986 TFLOPS	10.94 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2560	3840
Pixel fill rate	56.16 GPixel/s	68.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	140.4 GTexel/s	171.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	80 Watt
Transistor count		12000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Height		PCIe 4.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	336.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	96 bit	192 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Technologies
GPU Boost
VR Ready