GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop vs 2060 Mobile

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile 4 GB with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 1 year and 11 months older RTX 2060 Mobile 6 GB that utilizes 30 pipelines and 1920 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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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
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 2060 Laptop over RTX 3050 Ti Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop
  • 89% higher maximum theoretical performance (8.7 vs 4.6 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 8 nm process technology
  • Has 33% more shading units (2560 vs 1920)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Features 160 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 38% higher memory bandwidth: 264 vs 192 GB/s

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
85
49
41
25
88
52
42
25
The Witcher 3
79
62
42
20
85
65
45
22
Counter-Strike 2
128
89
65
26
134
92
68
28
Far Cry 6
67
58
46
22
71
62
45
24
Hogwarts Legacy
40
36
25
13
45
38
27
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
53
42
28
21
56
48
34
20
Ghost of Tsushima
38
30
22
12
41
31
26
13
Cyberpunk 2077
44
40
24
10
45
40
22
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
74
68
47
23
75
71
47
26
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 68 71
1080p Ultra 53 55
1440p Ultra 38 40
4K Ultra 19 20
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
Time Spy 5386 5958
Solar Bay 24115 25742
Port Royal 569 3328
Fire Strike 13504 15852
Wild Life Extreme 10240 11600
Night Raid 56676 62045
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 107.9 img/sec 150.7 img/sec
Face Detection 62.6 img/sec 75.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.75 Gpixels/sec 2.83 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.61 Gpixels/sec 3.68 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.89 Gpixels/sec 4.08 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.81 Gpixels/sec 0.89 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 275.9 Gpixels/sec 257.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8303.3 FPS 9069.6 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 499 540
DirectX 11 75 FPS 96 FPS
DirectX 12 49 FPS 39 FPS
GPU Compute 4319 Ops/s 3992 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]11100 & 1238 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
1374.98
Sources: Blender [9], [10]753 & 124 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-21 (WOLF)GeekBench84403

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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 4716 4450
Image Segmentation (HP) 12032 9120
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9965 9180
Face Detection (HP) 20723 18866
Pose Estimation (Q) 41186 41027
Text Classification (SP) 2133 1741
Machine Translation (HP) 3449 2269
Object Detection (SP) 5585 4980
Depth Estimation (Q) 19119 18044
Style Transfer (SP) 86331 91554
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop and 2060 Mobile

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 1, 2021 January 29, 2019
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture Ampere Turing
GPU Codename GA107 (GN20-P1) TU106 (N18E-G1-B)
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 6500M -
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 12700H or above - Intel Core i7 10750H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (85th and 90th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 735-1463 MHz (configurable) 960 MHz
Boost Clock 1035-1695 MHz (configurable) 1175-1200 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2560 1920
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 120
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 30
Tensor Cores 80 240
Ray-tracing Cores 20 30
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 3MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 50-81 GPixel/s 56-58 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 83-136 GTexel/s 141-144 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
5.3-8.7 TFLOPS
4.5-4.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 35-95 W (configurable) 80-115 W (configurable)
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
Fabrication Process 8 nm 12 nm
Die Size 276 mm² 445 mm²
Transistor Count 12 billion 10.8 billion
Transistor Density 43.48 MTr/mm² 24.27 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 4 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1375 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 11000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
264 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
CUDA 8.6 7.5
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4

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