NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 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 3 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (70W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1777MHz vs 1470MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +88%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

96bit

Memory Bus

192bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

3584

72

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

72

Tensor Cores

112

18

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GA106

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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