NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB 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 8GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1777 MHz
Around 28% higher texture fill rate: 181.4 GTexel/s vs 142.2 GTexel/s
Around 20% higher pipelines: 3072 vs 2560
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 130 Watt
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17566 vs 12598

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2023 vs 4 Jan 2022
Boost clock speed	1890 MHz vs 1777 MHz
Texture fill rate	181.4 GTexel/s vs 142.2 GTexel/s
Pipelines	3072 vs 2560
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt vs 130 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	17566 vs 12598

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB

Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 918 vs 732

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1552 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	918 vs 732

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

732

918

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

17566

12598

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	732	918
PassMark - G3D Mark	17566	12598
Geekbench - OpenCL	89106
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2255

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Ampere
Code name	AD107	GA106
Launch date	2023	4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	123	52
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1890 MHz	1777 MHz
Core clock speed	1545 MHz	1552 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	181.4 GFLOPS (1:64)	142.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	11.61 TFLOPS (1:1)	9.098 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	11.61 TFLOPS	9.098 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3072	2560
Pixel fill rate	60.48 GPixel/s	56.86 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	181.4 GTexel/s	142.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	130 Watt
Transistor count		12000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 8-pin
Length		242 mm, 9.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)		300 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	8 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