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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2615 points
347% 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
51 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
16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points
1030% significantly higher Blender score
102.79 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

58544 points
425% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
11144 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55123 points
377% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
11550 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47251 points
344% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
10627 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points
358% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
11127 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

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

64
60% significantly more texture mapping units
40

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
100% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

170th of 586
312th of 586

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
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 860M.

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