NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

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

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1670MHz vs 1207MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB +44%

6.18 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

4.275 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB

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GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

652 MHz

Base Clock

1404 MHz

1207 MHz

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

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

38.62 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.16 GPixel/s

96.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

133.6 GTexel/s

6.180 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

66.80 GFLOPS

6.180 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.275 TFLOPS

96.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

133.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

80W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GP106

-

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

200 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

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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