NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop

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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3468 points

5350 points

54% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

134 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

64 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

59 FPS

92 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

31 FPS

50 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1484.67 points

3318.42 points

123% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

63483 points

89964 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62406 points

90182 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1552 MHz

0.45% slightly higher core clock speed

1545 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

1890 MHz

6% 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

256 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W

115 W

13% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.86 Gigapixels/s

60.48 Gigapixels/s

6% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

181.4 Gigatexels/s

27% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.10 TFLOPS

11.61 TFLOPS

27% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

3072

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

20% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

139th of 586

96th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2023 January

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 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 3050 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 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 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 3050.