NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050, 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 5050

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4562 points

5591 points

22% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

135 FPS

23 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

66 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

79 FPS

95 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

52 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

2880.41 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

97092 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

91845 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

2317 MHz

157% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

2572 MHz

51% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

5% slightly higher memory bandwidth

320 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

82.3 Gigapixels/s

20% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

205.8 Gigatexels/s

20% slightly higher texture rate

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

91st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2025 July

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 5050 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5050 beats the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5050 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 5050 also has a significantly 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 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5050 at 130 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 5050 over the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.