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GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs RTX 3060

GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
VS
GeForce RTX 3060
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X2)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
GA106

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 6 GB with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 2 years and 2 months older RTX RTX 3060 12 GB that utilizes 28 pipelines and 3584 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the DeviceFacts Score for desktop GPU.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3060 over RTX 4050 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060
  • Performs slightly better (up to 14%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 13% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 60 vs 53 FPS
  • Includes 6 GB more video memory
  • Has 88% higher memory bandwidth: 360 vs 192 GB/s
  • Features 32 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 40% more shading units (3584 vs 2560)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 4050 Laptop
vs
RTX 3060

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
107
66
56
35
112
68
60
39
The Witcher 3
117
91
67
34
122
100
74
39
Counter-Strike 2
167
126
88
43
181
137
99
48
Far Cry 6
87
79
59
32
95
85
67
37
Hogwarts Legacy
62
52
34
20
65
57
40
18
CoD: Modern Warfare III
75
68
44
30
80
74
53
31
Ghost of Tsushima
57
45
33
17
62
50
37
20
Cyberpunk 2077
61
57
34
13
68
64
38
16
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
98
90
62
32
109
98
70
36
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 92 99
1080p Ultra 75 81
1440p Ultra 53 60
4K Ultra 28 32
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RTX 4050 Laptop
7909
RTX 3060 +14%
9001
Time Spy 8212 8754
Solar Bay 35375 41158
Port Royal 4624 5145
Fire Strike 21909 22304
Wild Life Extreme 15492 17728
Night Raid 84848 97159
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RTX 4050 Laptop
81436
RTX 3060 +12%
91603
Background Blur 141.4 img/sec 149.6 img/sec
Face Detection 84.1 img/sec 91 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.07 Gpixels/sec 4.07 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.91 Gpixels/sec 5.58 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.85 Gpixels/sec 3.92 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.1 Gpixels/sec 1.01 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 325.9 Gpixels/sec 372.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 11008.8 FPS 12226.3 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RTX 4050 Laptop +4%
8249
RTX 3060
7952

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RTX 4050 Laptop
14217
RTX 3060 +18%
16710
G2D Mark 622 965
DirectX 11 129 FPS 127 FPS
DirectX 12 60 FPS 68 FPS
GPU Compute 5847 Ops/s 8231 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 14311 & 46248 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4050 Laptop +12%
2567.25
RTX 3060
2288.28
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2120 & 6537 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-17 (kam)Geekbench 6 OpenCL93074
📘 2026-07-15 (Mr._.Flexo)Cinebench 20248096
📘 2026-07-02 (SuperDuck)Geekbench 6 OpenCL90032
📘 2026-05-18 (TheMan)Cinebench 20248523
📘 2026-05-15 -> ZayGeekbench 6 OpenCL89343
Add View all (8)
GeForce RTX 3060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-12-07 (tach)Cinebench 20247952
Add View all (1)

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RTX 4050 Laptop +3%
15570
RTX 3060
15123
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 4050 Laptop +5%
27160
RTX 3060
25942
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 4050 Laptop +18%
12230
RTX 3060
10356
Image Classification (SP) 6233 6645
Image Segmentation (HP) 16395 15338
Image Super Resolution (Q) 18240 14283
Face Detection (HP) 30758 28862
Pose Estimation (Q) 61300 61313
Text Classification (SP) 3124 2463
Machine Translation (HP) 4357 3793
Object Detection (SP) 7812 7712
Depth Estimation (Q) 29192 25461
Style Transfer (SP) 117759 123233
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop and RTX 3060

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 January 12, 2021
Launch price (MSRP) - $329
Case Laptop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X2) GA106
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 7700S - Radeon RX 6700 XT
Successor - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop - GeForce RTX 5060
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i5 12600K or above
Laptop GPU ranking (#67th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#58th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2070 MHz (configurable) 1320 MHz
Boost Clock 1605-2370 MHz (configurable) 1777 MHz
Shading Units 2560 3584
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 112
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 28
Tensor Cores 80 112
Ray-tracing Cores 20 28
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 12MB shared 3MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 51-76 GPixel/s 85 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 128-190 GTexel/s 199 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4050 Laptop
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS
RTX 3060 +5%
12.7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 170 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 5 nm 8 nm
Die Size 156 mm² 276 mm²
Transistor Count 18.9 billion 12 billion
Transistor Density 121.15 MTr/mm² 43.48 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 6 GB 12 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1875 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 15000 Mbps
Bus 96-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 4050 Laptop
192 GB/s
RTX 3060 +88%
360 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 8.9 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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