NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

101% significantly better overall score

2615 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

64 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

25 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Apex Legends FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

287 FPS

174 FPS significantly higher Apex Legends FPS

113 FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

144 FPS

81 FPS significantly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS

63 FPS

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

99% significantly higher Blender score

1161.74 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

58544 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

55123 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

47251 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

51045 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53105 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

1238 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

200% 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

360 GB/s

87% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

75 W

126% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

152% significantly higher pixel rate

33.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

194% significantly higher texture rate

67.65 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

194% significantly better floating point performance

4.33 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

75% significantly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

75% 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

98th of 586

170th of 586

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 vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop comparison

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

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

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