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GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop vs RTX 3050

GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
VS
GeForce RTX 3050
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X4)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050
GA106

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile with 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 1 year and 1 month older RTX RTX 3050 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 4060 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 61%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 60% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 67 vs 42 FPS
  • 60% higher maximum theoretical performance (14.6 vs 9.1 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Achieves 46% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (97K vs 67K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 4060 Laptop
vs
RTX 3050

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
120
77
66
44
92
53
43
26
The Witcher 3
141
112
79
42
90
70
49
24
Counter-Strike 2
205
153
110
54
139
101
72
31
Far Cry 6
103
92
75
43
76
66
49
25
Hogwarts Legacy
74
62
45
25
49
38
30
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
95
85
59
37
59
49
35
22
Ghost of Tsushima
74
60
42
23
46
35
28
15
Cyberpunk 2077
82
72
42
21
48
45
26
11
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
127
116
83
43
80
73
49
25
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 113 75
1080p Ultra 92 59
1440p Ultra 67 42
4K Ultra 37 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 4060 Laptop +61%
10212
RTX 3050
6348
Time Spy 10397 6235
Solar Bay 45002 30191
Port Royal 5819 3546
Fire Strike 26481 15967
Wild Life Extreme 19820 12795
Night Raid 98330 74854
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RTX 4060 Laptop +46%
97986
RTX 3050
67028
Background Blur 142.7 img/sec 110.4 img/sec
Face Detection 103.7 img/sec 64.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.83 Gpixels/sec 2.87 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.93 Gpixels/sec 3.76 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.63 Gpixels/sec 2.89 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.27 Gpixels/sec 0.81 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 430.4 Gpixels/sec 270.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13519.5 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 4060 Laptop +118%
10306
RTX 3050
4722

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RTX 4060 Laptop +39%
17346
RTX 3050
12471
G2D Mark 731 916
DirectX 11 155 FPS 90 FPS
DirectX 12 72 FPS 59 FPS
GPU Compute 6789 Ops/s 6415 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 22366 & 9379 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4060 Laptop +125%
3297.26
RTX 3050
1463.42
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 4269 & 1082 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)GeekBench115610
📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)Cinebench 202410216
📘 2026-02-21 (Бенкдикт)GeekBench101184
📘 2025-12-18 (AmirtheX)GeekBench107583
📘 2025-11-17 (kritan)Cinebench 202410306
Add View all (6)
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 4060 Laptop +49%
17683
RTX 3050
11848
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 4060 Laptop +44%
30738
RTX 3050
21368
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 4060 Laptop +72%
13612
RTX 3050
7905
Image Classification (SP) 7421 4958
Image Segmentation (HP) 19041 12747
Image Super Resolution (Q) 20913 9816
Face Detection (HP) 35464 22467
Pose Estimation (Q) 67110 41362
Text Classification (SP) 3086 2563
Machine Translation (HP) 4740 3721
Object Detection (SP) 8644 5929
Depth Estimation (Q) 32456 18361
Style Transfer (SP) 142039 84665
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 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 Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X4) GA106
Successor - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i5 12400 or above
Laptop GPU ranking (#42nd place)
Desktop GPU rating (#70th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2295 MHz (configurable) 1552 MHz
Boost Clock 1470-2370 MHz (configurable) 1777 MHz
Shading Units 3072 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 96 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 20
Tensor Cores 96 80
Ray-tracing Cores 24 20
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 71-114 GPixel/s 57 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 141-228 GTexel/s 142 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4060 Laptop +60%
9-14.6 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 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 4060 Laptop +14%
256 GB/s
RTX 3050
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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