NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 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 12 GB GA104 '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 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 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

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

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

113.7 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

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GA104

-

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

159 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

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 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

6.7

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