NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Dec 2017
Jul 2022
Generation
GeForce 10
GeForce 30 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1506 MHz
622 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
990 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1500 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
5GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
160bit
96bit
Bandwidth
160.2GB/s
144.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
10
16
Shading Units
1280
2048
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
40
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1280 KB
2 MB
Tensor Cores
-
64
RT Cores
-
16

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
68.36 GPixel/s
31.68 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
63.36 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
4.055 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
4.055 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
63.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GP106
GA107
GPU Variant
GP106-350-K3-A1
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Architecture
Pascal
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
16 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
8.7 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
200 mm²

Board Design

TDP
120W
35W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
6.1
8.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7

📊 Benchmark

Blender
332
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