NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 +6%

13.52 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce RTX 4050

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320MHz

Base Clock

2505MHz

1777MHz

Boost Clock

2640MHz

1875MHz

Memory Clock

2250MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

96bit

360.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

216.0 GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

18

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

2560

112

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

120

28

RT Cores

18

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3MB

L2 Cache

32MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

84.48 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

211.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

13.52 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.52 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

211.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

AD107

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

12,000 million

Transistors

18,900 million

276mm²

Die Size

159mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

150W

450W

Suggested PSU

450W

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

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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