NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1480MHz vs 1343MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile +27%

4.813 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jan 2024

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

1343 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

14

1280

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

56

-

RT Cores

14

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.98 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.21 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.813 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.813 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.21 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GA106

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

12 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

276 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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