NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1777MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

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

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +107%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1552 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GA107

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-150-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

200 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

120W

TDP

115W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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