NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points

30% slightly better overall score

3468 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

82 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

59 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

31 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

58% significantly higher Blender score

1484.67 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

72998 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

71667 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

56109 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

63483 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

62406 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1552 MHz

72% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

1777 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

5.97 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

62% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

20% slightly higher pixel rate

56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

20% slightly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

20% slightly better floating point performance

9.10 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

49% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

49% 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

111th of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2022 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 3060 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 3050 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 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 3050 also 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3050 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 3050.