NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Lower TDP (90W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1777MHz vs 1740MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +78%

12.74 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

30

GeForce RTX 3060 +46%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

60

GeForce RTX 3060 +33%

80

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

85

GeForce RTX 3060 +36%

116

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

26

GeForce RTX 3060 +15%

30

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +8%

39

GeForce RTX 3060

36

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

42

GeForce RTX 3060 +33%

56

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

50

GeForce RTX 3060 +10%

55

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

73

GeForce RTX 3060 +38%

101

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

101

GeForce RTX 3060 +40%

142

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

38

GeForce RTX 3060 +31%

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

74

GeForce RTX 3060 +10%

82

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

110

GeForce RTX 3060 +20%

133

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

28

2048

Shading Units

3584

64

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

64

Tensor Cores

112

16

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GA106

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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