NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1650 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1777MHz vs 1665MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 128.1GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +326%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1650

2.984 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +144%

8780

GeForce GTX 1650

3590

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +266%

44

GeForce GTX 1650

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +185%

80

GeForce GTX 1650

28

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +176%

116

GeForce GTX 1650

42

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +161%

55

GeForce GTX 1650

21

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +119%

101

GeForce GTX 1650

46

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +125%

142

GeForce GTX 1650

63

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +78%

50

GeForce GTX 1650

28

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +173%

82

GeForce GTX 1650

30

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +33%

133

GeForce GTX 1650

100

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce GTX 1650

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1485 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.1GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

14

3584

Shading Units

896

112

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

53.28 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.24 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.967 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.984 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

93.24 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

GA106

GPU Name

TU117

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU117-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

12 billion

Transistors

4.7 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

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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