GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile vs RTX 3050 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking232not rated
Place by popularity40not in top-100
Power efficiency22.74no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameGA107GB206
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date11 May 2021 (3 years ago)2025

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 cores20483584
Core clock speed712 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed1057 MHz2520 MHz
Manufacturing process technology8 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate67.65282.2
Floating-point processing power4.329 TFLOPS18.06 TFLOPS
ROPs4032
TMUs64112
Tensor Cores64112
Ray Tracing Cores1628

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
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16

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 typeGDDR6GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s507.2 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 outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.610.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 115 Watt

RTX 3050 Mobile has 53.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 5060 Mobile, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile and GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
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