NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Price

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$ 229.99

$ 109.80 significantly less expensive

$ 339.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3468 points

6694 points

93% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

161 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

77 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

59 FPS

113 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

31 FPS

61 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Apex Legends FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

177 FPS

209 FPS

32 FPS slightly higher Apex Legends FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

41 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

32 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

69 FPS

123 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

83 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

81 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

42 FPS

72 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

87 FPS

124 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

49 FPS

76 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

ULTRAKILL FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

70 FPS

87 FPS

17 FPS slightly higher ULTRAKILL FPS

Valorant FPS

High settings at 1080p

298 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Valorant FPS

296 FPS

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS FPS

Low settings at 1080p

178 FPS

24 FPS slightly higher PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS FPS

154 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6224 points

169% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1484.67 points

3124.65 points

110% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

63483 points

101567 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62406 points

99687 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1552 MHz

1925 MHz

24% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

2075 MHz

16% slightly 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

224 GB/s

288 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W

53% significantly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.86 Gigapixels/s

132.8 Gigapixels/s

133% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

381.8 Gigatexels/s

168% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.10 TFLOPS

24.44 TFLOPS

168% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

5888

129% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

129% 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

139th of 586

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce RTX 4060 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4060 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 4060 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 at 200 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4060 over the GeForce RTX 3050.