NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1480MHz vs 1057MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
+14%
4.329 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
3.789 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
+42%
4879
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
3415
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
+45%
2247
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
1548
Blender
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
+296%
1348
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
340
OctaneBench
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
+142%
148
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
61
Graphics Card
May 2021
Release Date
Jun 2017
GeForce 30 Mobile
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
712 MHz
Base Clock
1063 MHz
1057 MHz
Boost Clock
1480 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
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
33.82 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
71.04 GPixel/s
67.65 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
4.329 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
59.20 GFLOPS
4.329 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
67.65 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
118.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GP106
-
GPU Variant
N17E-G1-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Pascal
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
16 nm
Unknown
Transistors
4.4 billion
Unknown
Die Size
200 mm²
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
