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

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

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1709MHz vs 1470MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +54%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +14%

4831

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4202

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Jul 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

192bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1280

72

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GP106

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

70W

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

None

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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