NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1777MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +108%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

4.372 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

10

2560

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.6 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.32 GFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.372 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GP104

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

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

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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