NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1708MHz vs 1470MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +72%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Dec 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

192bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

9

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1152

72

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

48

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GP104

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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