GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

GN20-E3 GA106

AD107

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1283 MHz

1605 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

4 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

60 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

153.8

128.4

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

12 GB/s

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

168.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

8.9

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2

1.3