NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 199.40
$ 400.58 significantly less expensive
$ 599.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14 %
51 %
264% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS
123 FPS
94 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS
60 FPS
39 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

21 FPS
86 FPS
65 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
47 FPS
30 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2339
8714
272% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

219.50
2445.24
1013% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

20616
99213
381% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22192
96416
334% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21230
74845
252% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19745
89470
353% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20383
84353
313% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz
1320 MHz
2% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1392 MHz
1777 MHz
27% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
12 GiB
200% 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
360 GB/s
221% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
126% significantly lower TDP
170 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

44.54 Gigapixels/s
85.3 Gigapixels/s
91% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

66.82 Gigatexels/s
199 Gigatexels/s
197% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.14 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
495% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768
3584
366% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

48
112
133% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
48
49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

158th of 549
41st of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

October 2016
January 2021

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3060 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.

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