NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1777MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +107%

9.098 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3910

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +60%

6261

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +25%

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

40

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +5%

42

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +64%

82

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +3%

30

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

29

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

54

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +20%

65

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +12%

82

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

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

1552 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

20

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

80

40

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 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

GP106

GPU Name

GA106

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

12 billion

200 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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