GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB vs RTX 4060

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking49not rated
Place by popularity2not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation100.00no data
Power efficiency31.24no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameAD107GA107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date18 May 2023 (1 year ago)6 July 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores30722560
Core clock speed1830 MHz1237 MHz
Boost clock speed2460 MHz1492 MHz
Number of transistors18,900 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate236.2119.4
Floating-point processing power15.11 TFLOPS7.639 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs9680
Tensor Cores9680
Ray Tracing Cores2420

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x8
Length240 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pinno data

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 amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed2125 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth272.0 GB/s168.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent
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 Model6.86.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 May 2023 6 July 2022
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 5 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 75 Watt

RTX 4060 has an age advantage of 10 months, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 60% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB, on the other hand, has 53.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4060 and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4060 is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
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