NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1708MHz vs 1470MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +72%

6.774 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3849

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +25%

4838

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Feb 2024

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1042 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

96bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/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

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

70W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GA107

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

200 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

6.7

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