NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Jun 2017
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 10 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1552 MHz
1063 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1480 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
192bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
192.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
10
Shading Units
2560
1280
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
32
48
Tensor Cores
80
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RT Cores
20
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
56.86 GPixel/s
71.04 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.098 TFLOPS
59.20 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.098 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
118.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GP106
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
N17E-G1-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
80W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
None
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
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.