NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop 4 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 Ti Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4552 points

40% slightly better overall score

3236 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

79 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

79 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

57 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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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

76% significantly higher Blender score

1333.84 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

66487 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

62154 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

52643 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

58669 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

55976 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1222 MHz

35% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

14% slightly higher boost clock speed

1485 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

5.97 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

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

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

75 W

6% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

106% significantly higher pixel rate

33.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

106% significantly higher texture rate

82.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

106% significantly better floating point performance

5.30 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

110th of 597

144th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2021 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 3060 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3050 Ti 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has significantly more memory with 5.97 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop at 80 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop.