GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop vs 3050 Ti Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile 8 GB with 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 2 years and 2 months older RTX 3050 Ti Mobile 4 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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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 3050 Ti Mobile over RTX 4060 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 80%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 76% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 67 vs 38 FPS
  • 68% higher maximum theoretical performance (14.6 vs 8.7 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Achieves 50% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (97K vs 65K)
  • Has 33% higher memory bandwidth: 256 vs 192 GB/s

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
120
77
66
44
85
49
41
25
The Witcher 3
141
112
79
42
79
62
42
20
Counter-Strike 2
205
153
110
54
128
89
65
26
Far Cry 6
103
92
75
43
67
58
46
22
Hogwarts Legacy
74
62
45
25
40
36
25
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
95
85
59
37
53
42
28
21
Ghost of Tsushima
74
60
42
23
38
30
22
12
Cyberpunk 2077
82
72
42
21
44
40
24
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
127
116
83
43
74
68
47
23
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 113 68
1080p Ultra 92 53
1440p Ultra 67 38
4K Ultra 37 19
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 10397 5386
Solar Bay 45002 24115
Port Royal 5819 569
Fire Strike 26481 13504
Wild Life Extreme 19820 10240
Night Raid 98330 56676
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 142.7 img/sec 107.9 img/sec
Face Detection 103.7 img/sec 62.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.83 Gpixels/sec 2.75 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.93 Gpixels/sec 3.61 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 275.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13519.5 FPS 8303.3 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 731 499
DirectX 11 155 FPS 75 FPS
DirectX 12 72 FPS 49 FPS
GPU Compute 6789 Ops/s 4319 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]22366 & 11100 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
3297.26
Sources: Blender [9], [10]4269 & 753 samples

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
GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop
No benchmark results yet

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) 7421 4716
Image Segmentation (HP) 19041 12032
Image Super Resolution (Q) 20913 9965
Face Detection (HP) 35464 20723
Pose Estimation (Q) 67110 41186
Text Classification (SP) 3086 2133
Machine Translation (HP) 4740 3449
Object Detection (SP) 8644 5585
Depth Estimation (Q) 32456 19119
Style Transfer (SP) 142039 86331
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop and 3050 Ti Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 January 1, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X4) GA107 (GN20-P1)
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 6500M
Successor - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i7 12700H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (42nd and 85th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2295 MHz (configurable) 735-1463 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1470-2370 MHz (configurable) 1035-1695 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 3072 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 96 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 48
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 50-81 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 141-228 GTexel/s 83-136 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
9-14.6 TFLOPS
5.3-8.7 TFLOPS

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 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 4 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1500 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 12000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
256 GB/s

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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