NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics comparison: performance score, cores and clock speeds, VRAM, TGP, cache, and RT and AI units. The better value in each row is highlighted in green.
Summary
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 offers a higher boost clock (1740 MHz vs 1703 MHz). NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 offers more compute units (CUDA cores: 3840 vs 2048), more VRAM (6 GB vs 4 GB), a wider memory bus (192 bit vs 128 bit), higher memory bandwidth (336 GB/s vs 192 GB/s), and more L2 cache (3 MB vs 2 MB).
Performance score
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Key specs
CUDA cores2048
CUDA cores3840
Boost1740 MHz
Boost1703 MHz
VRAM4 GB
VRAM6 GB
Memory bus128 bit
Memory bus192 bit
TGP35–95 W
TGP60–130 W
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
General
SeriesRTX 30 Mobile
SeriesRTX 30 Mobile
GPU architectureAmpere
GPU architectureAmpere
GPU chipGA107
GPU chipGA106
Chip variantGN20-P0-A1
Chip variantGN20-E3
FoundrySamsung
FoundrySamsung
Process node8 nm
Process node8 nm
Die size200 mm²
Die size276 mm²
Transistors8.7 billion
Transistors12 billion
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Release dateMay 11, 2021
Release dateJanuary 12, 2021
Cores and clocks
CUDA cores2048
CUDA cores3840
16× SM
30× SM
Boost clock (max)1740 MHz
Boost clock (max)1703 MHz
Boost clock (min)1057 MHz
Boost clock (min)1283 MHz
Memory
VRAM4 GB
VRAM6 GB
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
Memory bus128 bit
Memory bus192 bit
Memory speed12 Gb/s
Memory speed14 Gb/s
Bandwidth192 GB/s
Bandwidth336 GB/s
TGP
TGP range35 - 80 W
TGP range60 - 115 W
Dynamic Boost15 W
Dynamic Boost15 W
Cache
L2 cache2 MB
L2 cache3 MB
L1 cache128 KB
L1 cache128 KB
Units
TMUs64
TMUs120
ROPs32
ROPs48
RT cores16
RT cores30
Tensor cores64
Tensor cores120
SM blocks16
SM blocks30
AI
AI performanceN/A
AI performanceN/A