NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1605MHz vs 1425MHz)

Lower TDP (35W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q

8.218 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +33%

10.94 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1140 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1605 MHz

Boost Clock

1425 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

96bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

3840

80

TMUs

120

48

ROPs

48

80

Tensor Cores

120

20

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

12 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

77.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.40 GPixel/s

128.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

171.0 GTexel/s

8.218 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.94 TFLOPS

8.218 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.94 TFLOPS

128.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

171.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GA106

GN21-X2

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

12 billion

146 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

60-115W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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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