NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.7GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1740MHz vs 1709MHz)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +62%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 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

1545 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

2257 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

216.7GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

16

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

90W

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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GA107

GP106-410-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-140-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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