NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 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 GDDR5X 's Advantages
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 3 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 GDDR5X
4.375 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+62%
7.127 TFLOPS
Blender
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
452
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+238%
1528
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
75
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+133%
175
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
9
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+233%
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
34
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+76%
60
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
51
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+66%
85
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
28
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+78%
50
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
52
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+40%
73
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
75
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+34%
101
Graphics Card
Oct 2018
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
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.2GB/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
GP104
GPU Name
GA107
GP104-150-KA-A1
GPU Variant
GA107-140-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
16 nm
Process Size
8 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
314 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
