NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 216.7GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +107%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2257 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

216.7GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GP106

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-410-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

120W

300 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 8-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

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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