NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1777MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

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

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

4.372 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +108%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

Graphics Card

Mar 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

1552 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

20

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

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

56.86 GPixel/s

136.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

68.32 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

4.372 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

136.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

115W

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

GA107

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-150-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

314 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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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