NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 78% higher core clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 1410 MHz
  • Around 59% higher boost clock speed: 2640 MHz vs 1665 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
  • Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 200 Watt
  • Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Launch date 2023 vs 1 Dec 2020
Core clock speed 2505 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Boost clock speed 2640 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 200 Watt
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

  • Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 253.1 GTexel/s vs 211.2 GTexel/s
  • Around 90% higher pipelines: 4864 vs 2560
Texture fill rate 253.1 GTexel/s vs 211.2 GTexel/s
Pipelines 4864 vs 2560

Compare benchmarks

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

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
PassMark - G3D Mark 20394
PassMark - G2D Mark 989
Geekbench - OpenCL 109075
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 323.141
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4756.579
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 35.311
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 150.943
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1474.189
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 27478
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 27478
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2671

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD106 GA104
Launch date 2023 1 Dec 2020
Place in performance rating not rated 104
Launch price (MSRP) $399
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2640 MHz 1665 MHz
Core clock speed 2505 MHz 1410 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 211.2 GFLOPS (1:64) 253.1 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 13.52 TFLOPS (1:1) 16.20 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.52 TFLOPS 16.20 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 4864
Pixel fill rate 84.48 GPixel/s 133.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 211.2 GTexel/s 253.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 200 Watt
Transistor count 17400 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 12-pin 1x 12-pin
Length 242 mm (9.5 inches)
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 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 448 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6