NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, 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 RTX 5060

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2624 points

8233 points

213% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

191 FPS

127 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

95 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

139 FPS

94 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS

75 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

3690.41 points

217% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

126840 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

120026 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

2280 MHz

84% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

2497 MHz

66% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

448 GB/s

133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

93% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s

119.9 Gigapixels/s

254% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

299.6 Gigatexels/s

342% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

3840

87% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

87% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

173rd of 597

51st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5060 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5060 has a significantly 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 5060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5060 at 145 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5060 is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop.