GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs RTX 3050 4GB Mobile

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking226not rated
Place by popularity74not in top-100
Power efficiency27.99no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGN20-P0GA104
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date11 May 2021 (3 years ago)19 October 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores20484864
Core clock speed1238 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1665 MHz
Number of transistorsno data17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)225 Watt
Texture fill rateno data253.1
Floating-point processing powerno data16.2 TFLOPS
ROPsno data80
TMUsno data152
Tensor Coresno data152
Ray Tracing Coresno data38

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data242 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed12000 MHz1188 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data608.3 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 May 2021 19 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 225 Watt

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile has 275% lower power consumption.

RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile
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