GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs 3050 Laptop
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X2)
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 6 GB with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 2 years and 2 months older RTX 3050 Mobile 4 GB that utilizes 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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Review
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
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
- Performs significantly better (up to 61%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 66% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 53 vs 32 FPS
- 70% higher maximum theoretical performance (12.1 vs 7.1 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Includes 2 GB more video memory
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
- Achieves 39% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (81K vs 58K)
- Has 25% more shading units (2560 vs 2048)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 107 66 56 35 |
75 44 34 21 |
| The Witcher 3 | 117 91 67 34 |
68 53 38 20 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 167 126 88 43 |
115 80 54 23 |
| Far Cry 6 | 87 79 59 32 |
60 52 40 17 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 62 52 34 20 |
37 28 23 12 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 75 68 44 30 |
48 37 27 16 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 57 45 33 17 |
37 28 18 10 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 61 57 34 13 |
36 35 19 - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 98 90 62 32 |
66 62 39 18 |
| 1080p High | 92 | 60 |
| 1080p Ultra | 75 | 47 |
| 1440p Ultra | 53 | 32 |
| 4K Ultra | 28 | 16 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 8212 | 4884 |
| Solar Bay | 35375 | 21596 |
| Port Royal | 4624 | 552 |
| Fire Strike | 21909 | 12571 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 15492 | 9400 |
| Night Raid | 84848 | 53685 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 141.4 img/sec | 88.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 84.1 img/sec | 57.3 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.07 Gpixels/sec | 2.53 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 3.91 Gpixels/sec | 3.33 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.85 Gpixels/sec | 2.55 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.1 Gpixels/sec | 0.76 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 325.9 Gpixels/sec | 256.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 11008.8 FPS | 7465.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 622 | 493 |
| DirectX 11 | 129 FPS | 71 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 60 FPS | 46 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 5847 Ops/s | 3868 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-07-17 (kam) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 93074 |
| 📘 2026-07-15 (Mr._.Flexo) | Cinebench 2024 | 8096 |
| 📘 2026-07-02 (SuperDuck) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 90032 |
| 📘 2026-05-18 (TheMan) | Cinebench 2024 | 8523 |
| 📘 2026-05-15 -> Zay | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 89343 |
GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-08-31 (bobschieffer) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 61418 |
| 📘 2026-08-29 (bobschieffer) | Cinebench 2024 | 3654 |
| 📘 2026-08-13 -> Kushagra_Aggarwal | Steel Nomad Light | 5735 |
| 📘 2026-01-26 (rar) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 68364 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 6233 | 4349 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 16395 | 11416 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 18240 | 8973 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 30758 | 18927 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 61300 | 34631 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3124 | 2269 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4357 | 3539 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 7812 | 5046 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 29192 | 15772 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 117759 | 75260 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop and 3050 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | February 22, 2023 | January 1, 2021 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Entry-level | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | AD107 (GN21-X2) | GA107 |
| Rival Equivalent | - Radeon RX 7700S | - |
| Successor | - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop | - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above | - |
Laptop GPU ranking (67th and 93rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1140-2070 MHz (configurable) | 712-1530 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 1605-2370 MHz (configurable) | 1057-1740 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 2048 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 80 | 64 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 40 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 20 | 16 |
| Tensor Cores | 80 | 64 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 20 | 16 |
| 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 | 42-70 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 128-190 GTexel/s | 68-111 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 35-140 W (configurable) | 35-95 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 156 mm² | 200 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 18.9 billion | 8.7 billion |
| Transistor Density | 121.15 MTr/mm² | 43.5 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 6 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 16000 Mbps | 12000 Mbps |
| Bus | 96-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| 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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