NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1777MHz vs 1455MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +584%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +403%

9002

GeForce GTX 1050

1789

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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GeForce GTX 1050

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Oct 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1354 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

5

3584

Shading Units

640

112

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.56 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.20 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.10 GFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.862 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

58.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GP107

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

GP107-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

132 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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