GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
GA104
GN21-X2
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2021
January 2023
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 12-pin
-
Boost clock speed
1777 MHz
2370 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
17,400 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
170 Watt
115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate
199.0
140.4
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
12 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
15 GB/s
16000 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
360.0 GB/s
192.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Portable Device Dependent
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.6
8.9
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.7
Vulkan
1.2
1.3