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GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs 3060 Laptop

GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
VS
GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X2)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
GA106 (GN20-E3)

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 2 years and 1 month older RTX 3060 Mobile that utilizes 30 pipelines and 3840 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 (1)

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 3060 Mobile 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 Laptop
  • Has 75% higher memory bandwidth: 336 vs 192 GB/s
  • Features 40 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 50% more shading units (3840 vs 2560)

Gaming Performance

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

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
107
66
56
35
108
64
55
37
The Witcher 3
117
91
67
34
120
95
68
35
Counter-Strike 2
167
126
88
43
173
125
89
44
Far Cry 6
87
79
59
32
88
78
64
34
Hogwarts Legacy
62
52
34
20
62
51
36
18
CoD: Modern Warfare III
75
68
44
30
76
69
49
30
Ghost of Tsushima
57
45
33
17
58
45
33
21
Cyberpunk 2077
61
57
34
13
63
56
35
16
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
98
90
62
32
101
94
66
32
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 92 94
1080p Ultra 75 75
1440p Ultra 53 55
4K Ultra 28 30
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 8212 8318
Solar Bay 35375 36291
Port Royal 4624 4708
Fire Strike 21909 20181
Wild Life Extreme 15492 16477
Night Raid 84848 72311
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 Laptop +16%
94459
Background Blur 141.4 img/sec 153.5 img/sec
Face Detection 84.1 img/sec 90 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.07 Gpixels/sec 4.1 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.91 Gpixels/sec 5.77 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.85 Gpixels/sec 4.35 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.1 Gpixels/sec 1.01 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 325.9 Gpixels/sec 385.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 11008.8 FPS 12770 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 622 586
DirectX 11 129 FPS 109 FPS
DirectX 12 60 FPS 58 FPS
GPU Compute 5847 Ops/s 5621 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 14311 & 21345 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4050 Laptop +10%
2568.81
RTX 3060 Laptop
2328.43
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2080 & 3143 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 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-17 (RaRagi-Bliss)Geekbench 6 OpenCL95620
📘 2026-04-17 (RaRagi-Bliss)Geekbench 6 OpenCL95620
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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 6233 6257
Image Segmentation (HP) 16395 16583
Image Super Resolution (Q) 18240 12510
Face Detection (HP) 30758 29528
Pose Estimation (Q) 61300 51349
Text Classification (SP) 3124 2685
Machine Translation (HP) 4357 3939
Object Detection (SP) 7812 7206
Depth Estimation (Q) 29192 24343
Style Transfer (SP) 117759 113151
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop and 3060 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 January 12, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X2) GA106 (GN20-E3)
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 7700S - Radeon RX 6600M
Successor - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i5 12500H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (66th and 65th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2070 MHz (configurable) 816-1387 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1605-2370 MHz (configurable) 1283-1703 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2560 3840
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 120
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 30
Tensor Cores 80 120
Ray-tracing Cores 20 30
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 62-82 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 128-190 GTexel/s 154-204 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4050 Laptop
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS
RTX 3060 Laptop +8%
9.9-13.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 60-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 5 nm 8 nm
Die Size 156 mm² 300 mm²
Transistor Count 18.9 billion 13.25 billion
Transistor Density 121.15 MTr/mm² 44.17 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 6 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 12000-14000 Mbps
Bus 96-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 4050 Laptop
192 GB/s
RTX 3060 Laptop +75%
336 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
CUDA 8.9 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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