NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2624 points

349% significantly better overall score

584 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

64 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

1030% significantly higher Blender score

102.79 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

58544 points

425% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11144 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55123 points

377% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11550 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47251 points

344% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10627 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

358% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11127 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

453% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9592 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

38% slightly higher boost clock speed

1085 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192 GB/s

139% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

Identical

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s

94% significantly higher pixel rate

17.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

55% significantly higher texture rate

43.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.33 TFLOPS

105% significantly better floating point performance

2.11 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

220% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

173rd of 597

318th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs GeForce GTX 860M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 860M in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, both the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop and the GeForce GTX 860M have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 860M.