NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Aug 2016
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1515 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
1755 MHz
1708 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
192bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
192.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
18
9
Shading Units
2304
1152
TMUs
72
72
ROPs
32
48
Tensor Cores
72
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RT Cores
18
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
56.16 GPixel/s
81.98 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
126.4 GTexel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
8.087 TFLOPS
61.49 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.087 TFLOPS
3.935 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
126.4 GFLOPS
123.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GP106
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
GP106-300-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Pascal
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
16 nm
Transistors
12 billion
4.4 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
130W
120W
Suggested PSU
300 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
6.1
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
3,863
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,771
OctaneBench
—
76
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
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15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
29
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
44
Blender
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188
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.