NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

974 points

4552 points

367% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

21 FPS

112 FPS

91 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

57 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

79 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

11 FPS

44 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

226.56 points

2352.59 points

938% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18936 points

98709 points

421% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20678 points

92420 points

346% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18970 points

71210 points

275% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19975 points

84300 points

322% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18555 points

82804 points

346% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1151 MHz

27% slightly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1291 MHz

1703 MHz

31% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

5.97 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

336 GB/s

199% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

6% slightly lower TDP

80 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

41.31 Gigapixels/s

68.4 Gigapixels/s

65% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.97 Gigatexels/s

171 Gigatexels/s

175% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

451% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

3840

400% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

272nd of 597

110th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has significantly more memory with 5.97 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop at 80 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q.