NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Price

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$ 289.00

$ 229.99

$ 59.01 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points

3468 points

68% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

42 FPS

82 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

41 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

59 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

31 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

1484.67 points

421% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31922 points

72998 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points

71667 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points

56109 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

63483 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

62406 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

1552 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

1777 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

224 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

8% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

44% significantly higher pixel rate

56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

142.2 Gigatexels/s

15% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

131% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

2560

122% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

11% slightly 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

206th of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2022 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 1060 3GB vs GeForce RTX 3050 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3050 over the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.

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