NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1709MHz vs 1518MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +87%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

9

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB +11%

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +60%

32

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +61%

50

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

31

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +68%

27

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

16

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +66%

50

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

30

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +94%

74

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

38

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

May 2018

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1392 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1518 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

96bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

84.10GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

6

1280

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

ROPs

24

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

36.43 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.86 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

36.43 GFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.332 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

72.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GP107

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GP107-301-K1-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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