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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points
5507 points
21% 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

78 FPS
94 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

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points
2880.41 points
22% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points
97092 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) 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
80

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
49% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586
91st of 586

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
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5050 comparison

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

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 5050.

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