NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 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 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +87%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

84.10GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

6

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

109.4 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

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GP107

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GP107-301-K1-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

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 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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