NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1777MHz vs 1590MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +347%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

2.849 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +214%

44

GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

14

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +175%

80

GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

29

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +163%

116

GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

44

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +150%

55

GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

22

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +110%

101

GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

48

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +118%

142

GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

65

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +78%

50

GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

28

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +173%

82

GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

30

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +33%

133

GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

100

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1590 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/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

50.88 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.04 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.699 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.849 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

89.04 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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