Component comparison

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs GeForce RTX 5050

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs GeForce RTX 5050 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+16 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+64 bit)
  • + CUDA cores (+1280)
  • + TMUs (+40)
  • + ROPs (+16)
  • + RT cores (+10)
  • + Tensor cores (+40)
  • + Normalized score (+31.2)
B GeForce RTX 5050
  • + Release year (+4)
  • + VRAM (GB) (+2 GB)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+35 W)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-5 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+4,900M)
  • + Die size (mm²) (+127 mm²)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+2.23 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+13.90 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+34.80 GTexel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+5.8)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+1517)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
Component B
GeForce RTX 5050
Release year 2021 2025 (+4)
VRAM (GB) 6 GB 8 GB (+2 GB)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 1750 MHz —
Bandwidth (GB/s) 336 GB/s (+16 GB/s) 320 GB/s
Memory bus (bit) 192 bit (+64 bit) 128 bit
TGP / TDP (W) 80 W 115 W (+35 W)
Lithography (nm) 8 nm 3 nm (-5 nm)
Transistors (M) 12,000M 16,900M (+4,900M)
Die size (mm²) 276 mm² 149 mm² (+127 mm²)
Base clock (MHz) 900 MHz —
Boost clock (MHz) 1425 MHz —
CUDA cores 3,840 (+1280) 2,560
TMUs 120 (+40) 80
ROPs 48 (+16) 32
RT cores 30 (+10) 20
Tensor cores 120 (+40) 80
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 10.94 TFLOPS 13.17 TFLOPS (+2.23 TFLOPS)
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 68.40 GPixel/s 82.30 GPixel/s (+13.90 GPixel/s)
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 171.00 GTexel/s 205.80 GTexel/s (+34.80 GTexel/s)
Energy efficiency 18.5 24.3 (+5.8)
PassMark (overall) 12,550 14,067 (+1517)
3DMark Time Spy 8,222 —
3DMark Fire Strike 21,689 —
Geekbench OpenCL 88,251 —
Geekbench Vulkan 89,918 —
Normalized score 72.5 (+31.2) 41.3

Only in component B

ray_tracing

In both

CUDA DLSS ReBAR

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile GeForce RTX 5050 Delta
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 5050 wins 11 of the comparable criteria. The choice depends on your use case.

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).