NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1777MHz vs 1590MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
2688 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6
2.849 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+347%
12.74 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6
3566
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+107%
7384
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6
1607
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+111%
3391
Blender
GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6
527
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+374%
2499
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6
73
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+286%
282
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6
14
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+221%
45
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6
29
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+193%
85
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6
44
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+200%
132
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6
22
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+140%
53
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6
48
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+104%
98
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6
65
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+115%
140
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6
28
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+171%
76
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6
30
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+173%
82
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6
100
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+54%
154
Graphics Card
Apr 2020
Release Date
Oct 2022
GeForce 16
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1590 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
28
896
Shading Units
3584
56
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
50.88 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
89.04 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
5.699 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
2.849 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
89.04 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
170W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
TU117
GPU Name
GA106
TU117-300-A1
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
Turing
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
12 nm
Process Size
8 nm
4.7 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
7.5
CUDA
8.6
6.6
Shader Model
6.6
