NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 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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$ 335.00

$ 229.99

$ 105.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

3468 points

66% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

82 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

41 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

59 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

31 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

6224 points

71% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

1484.67 points

300% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

72998 points

134% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

71667 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

56109 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

63483 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

62406 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

1552 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

8% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 3050 benchmarks

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

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3050 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 is better than the GeForce GTX 1060.