NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1777MHz vs 1455MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +584%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1050

1789

GeForce RTX 3060 +390%

8780

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050

8

GeForce RTX 3060 +450%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050

18

GeForce RTX 3060 +344%

80

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050

31

GeForce RTX 3060 +274%

116

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050

14

GeForce RTX 3060 +292%

55

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050

29

GeForce RTX 3060 +248%

101

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050

36

GeForce RTX 3060 +294%

142

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050

38

GeForce RTX 3060 +115%

82

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 +12%

149

GeForce RTX 3060

133

GeForce GTX 1050

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

5

SM Count

28

640

Shading Units

3584

40

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

GA106

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

12 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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