NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop, 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 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

22% slightly better overall score

4302 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

23 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

104 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

53 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

76 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

41 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

149 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Call of Duty FPS

75 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

62 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

52 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

239 FPS

154 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

85 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

66 FPS

72 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

84 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS

49 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

75 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

51 FPS

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

2581.07 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

75551 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

75827 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

1455 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1755 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

96 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

50 W

239% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

51% significantly higher pixel rate

56.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

41% slightly higher texture rate

140.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

41% slightly better floating point performance

8.99 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

40% slightly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

40% slightly 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

118th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2023 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 vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 beats the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 4050 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 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 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 over the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop.