NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB 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.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

Around 9% higher boost clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1740 MHz
Around 45% higher texture fill rate: 181.4 GTexel/s vs 125.3 GTexel/s
Around 33% higher pipelines: 3072 vs 2304
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 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Around 36% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17566 vs 12873
Around 79% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 89106 vs 49885

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1890 MHz vs 1740 MHz
Texture fill rate	181.4 GTexel/s vs 125.3 GTexel/s
Pipelines	3072 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 8 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	17566 vs 12873
Geekbench - OpenCL	89106 vs 49885

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Around 28% lower typical power consumption: 90 Watt vs 115 Watt
Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 942 vs 732

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	90 Watt vs 115 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	942 vs 732

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

732

942

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

17566

12873

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

89106

49885

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	732	942
PassMark - G3D Mark	17566	12873
Geekbench - OpenCL	89106	49885
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2255

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Ampere
Code name	AD107	GA107
Launch date	2023	2022
Place in performance rating	123	88
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1890 MHz	1740 MHz
Core clock speed	1545 MHz	1545 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	181.4 GFLOPS (1:64)	125.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	11.61 TFLOPS (1:1)	8.018 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	11.61 TFLOPS	8.018 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3072	2304
Pixel fill rate	60.48 GPixel/s	55.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	181.4 GTexel/s	125.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	90 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Length		242 mm, 9.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)		250 Watt
Width		112 mm, 4.4 inches
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	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	256.0 GB/s	224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6