NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 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 3090

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

225% significantly better overall score

4302 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

229 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

104 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

116 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

53 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

165 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

76 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

41 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

125% significantly higher Blender score

2581.07 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

157% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

75551 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

75827 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

1455 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

1755 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

96 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

387% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

50 W

599% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

237% significantly higher pixel rate

56.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

296% significantly higher texture rate

140.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

295% significantly better floating point performance

8.99 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

309% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

309% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

118th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3090 beats the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop 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 4050 Laptop also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 is better than the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop.