NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1740MHz vs 1708MHz)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +63%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

4.372 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.6 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.32 GFLOPS

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.372 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GP104

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

120W

250 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 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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