NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 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, 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 3050 4GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 13% higher core clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 1365 MHz
  • Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 1740 MHz vs 1680 MHz
  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 2304 vs 1920
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 78% lower typical power consumption: 90 Watt vs 160 Watt
  • Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 942 vs 746
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2022 vs 7 January 2019
Core clock speed 1545 MHz vs 1365 MHz
Boost clock speed 1740 MHz vs 1680 MHz
Pipelines 2304 vs 1920
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 Watt vs 160 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 942 vs 746

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
  • 8x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
  • Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 14119 vs 12873
  • Around 43% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 71402 vs 49885
Specifications (specs)
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 14119 vs 12873
Geekbench - OpenCL 71402 vs 49885

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
942
746
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12873
14119
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
49885
71402
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
PassMark - G2D Mark 942 746
PassMark - G3D Mark 12873 14119
Geekbench - OpenCL 49885 71402
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 217.04
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3119.736
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 21.707
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 133.975
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1141.283
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 7442
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 6714
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 7442
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 6714
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1242

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Turing
Code name GA107 TU106
Launch date 2022 7 January 2019
Place in performance rating 88 161
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $349
Price now $349.99
Value for money (0-100) 62.74

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1740 MHz 1680 MHz
Core clock speed 1545 MHz 1365 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 125.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.018 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.018 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2304 1920
Pixel fill rate 55.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 125.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 Watt 160 Watt
Transistor count 10,800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
DisplayPort support
HDMI
DisplayPort count 2

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 242 mm, 9.5 inches 229 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 8-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 14000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6