GeForce RTX 4010 vs RTX 3050 6GB Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking214not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency28.70no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGN20-P0-R 6 GBGA107
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date6 January 2023 (1 year ago)16 April 2024 (less than a year 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 cores2560768
Core clock speed1237 MHz1417 MHz
Boost clock speed1492 MHz1762 MHz
Number of transistorsno data8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data42.29
Floating-point processing powerno data2.706 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data24
Tensor Coresno data24
Ray Tracing Coresno data6

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 x8
Lengthno data163 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB4 GB
Memory bus width96 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed12000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data96 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 data4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 January 2023 16 April 2024
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 50 Watt

RTX 3050 6GB Mobile has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 4010, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 20% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile and GeForce RTX 4010. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 4010 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile
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