NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 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 - 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 4050

  • 3.5x more core clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 712 MHz
  • 2.5x more boost clock speed: 2640 MHz vs 1057 MHz
  • 3.1x more texture fill rate: 211.2 GTexel/s vs 67.65 GTexel/s
  • Around 25% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2048
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)
Core clock speed 2505 MHz vs 712 MHz
Boost clock speed 2640 MHz vs 1057 MHz
Texture fill rate 211.2 GTexel/s vs 67.65 GTexel/s
Pipelines 2560 vs 2048
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 8 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 150 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 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
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8923
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8045
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 15760
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8923
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8045
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 421

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD106 GA107
Launch date 2023 2021
Place in performance rating not rated 248
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2640 MHz 1057 MHz
Core clock speed 2505 MHz 712 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 211.2 GFLOPS (1:64) 67.65 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 13.52 TFLOPS (1:1) 4.329 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.52 TFLOPS 4.329 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 2048
Pixel fill rate 84.48 GPixel/s 42.28 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 211.2 GTexel/s 67.65 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 75 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 12-pin None
Width IGP

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 192 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6