NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1755MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +105%

8.087 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

9

SM Count

18

1152

Shading Units

2304

72

TMUs

72

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA106

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

12 billion

314 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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