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GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs RTX 3050

GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
VS
GeForce RTX 3050
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X2)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050
GA106

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 6 GB with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 1 year and 1 month older RTX RTX 3050 8 GB that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 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
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the NanoReview Score for desktop GPU.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3050 over RTX 4050 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
  • Performs better (up to 25%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Shows 26% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 53 vs 42 FPS
  • 33% higher maximum theoretical performance (12.1 vs 9.1 TFLOPS)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Achieves 21% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (81K vs 67K)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 4050 Laptop
vs
RTX 3050

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
107
66
56
35
92
53
43
26
The Witcher 3
117
91
67
34
90
70
49
24
Counter-Strike 2
167
126
88
43
139
101
72
31
Far Cry 6
87
79
59
32
76
66
49
25
Hogwarts Legacy
62
52
34
20
49
38
30
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
75
68
44
30
59
49
35
22
Ghost of Tsushima
57
45
33
17
46
35
28
15
Cyberpunk 2077
61
57
34
13
48
45
26
11
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
98
90
62
32
80
73
49
25
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 92 75
1080p Ultra 75 59
1440p Ultra 53 42
4K Ultra 28 21
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 +25%
7909
RTX 3050
6348
Time Spy 8212 6235
Solar Bay 35375 30191
Port Royal 4624 3546
Fire Strike 21909 15967
Wild Life Extreme 15492 12795
Night Raid 84848 74854
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 +21%
81436
RTX 3050
67028
Background Blur 141.4 img/sec 110.4 img/sec
Face Detection 84.1 img/sec 64.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.07 Gpixels/sec 2.87 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.91 Gpixels/sec 3.76 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.85 Gpixels/sec 2.89 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.1 Gpixels/sec 0.81 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 325.9 Gpixels/sec 270.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 11008.8 FPS 9339.7 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 +75%
8249
RTX 3050
4722

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RTX 4050 Laptop +14%
14217
RTX 3050
12471
G2D Mark 622 916
DirectX 11 129 FPS 90 FPS
DirectX 12 60 FPS 59 FPS
GPU Compute 5847 Ops/s 6415 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 14311 & 9379 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4050 Laptop +76%
2567.25
RTX 3050
1462.18
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2120 & 1092 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 3050
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitryCinebench 20244722
📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitrySteel Nomad Light6237
Add View all (2)

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 +31%
15570
RTX 3050
11848
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 4050 Laptop +27%
27160
RTX 3050
21368
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 4050 Laptop +55%
12230
RTX 3050
7905
Image Classification (SP) 6233 4958
Image Segmentation (HP) 16395 12747
Image Super Resolution (Q) 18240 9816
Face Detection (HP) 30758 22467
Pose Estimation (Q) 61300 41362
Text Classification (SP) 3124 2563
Machine Translation (HP) 4357 3721
Object Detection (SP) 7812 5929
Depth Estimation (Q) 29192 18361
Style Transfer (SP) 117759 84665
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop and RTX 3050

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 January 27, 2022
Launch price (MSRP) - $249
Case Laptop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X2) GA106
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 7700S -
Successor - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i5 12400 or above
Laptop GPU ranking (#67th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#71st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2070 MHz (configurable) 1552 MHz
Boost Clock 1605-2370 MHz (configurable) 1777 MHz
Shading Units 2560 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 20
Tensor Cores 80 80
Ray-tracing Cores 20 20
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 12MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 51-76 GPixel/s 57 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 128-190 GTexel/s 142 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4050 Laptop +33%
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS
RTX 3050
9.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 130 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 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 96-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 4050 Laptop
192 GB/s
RTX 3050 +17%
224 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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