NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 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 4050 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (2640MHz vs 1777MHz)

Lower TDP (100W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 216.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4050 +6%

13.52 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2505 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2640 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

96bit

Memory Bus

192bit

216.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

18

SM Count

28

2560

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

120

Tensor Cores

112

18

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

84.48 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

13.52 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

211.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GA106

-

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

12 billion

159 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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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