NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1755MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

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

1152 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +105%

8.087 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +662%

1434

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

188

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +135%

179

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

76

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +33%

20

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +72%

50

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

29

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +59%

70

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

44

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +16%

29

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

25

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +41%

65

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

46

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +22%

82

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

67

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1755 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

18

SM Count

9

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

56.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

126.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

8.087 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

8.087 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

126.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 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

GP106

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

276 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

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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