NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

4534 points

291% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

112 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

57 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

78 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

44 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

2352.59 points

1279% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points

98709 points

473% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

92420 points

397% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

71210 points

296% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

84300 points

369% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

82804 points

382% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

50% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

1703 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

5.97 GiB

198% 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

46.56 Gigapixels/s

68.4 Gigapixels/s

46% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

171 Gigatexels/s

193% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

487% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

3840

499% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

200% 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

254th of 586

111th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

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

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop comparison

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

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1050 has a significantly 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has significantly more memory with 5.97 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

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