NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

2624 points

26% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

64 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

28 FPS

45 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

25 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

1161.74 points

213% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

58544 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

55123 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

47251 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

51045 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

53105 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

37% slightly higher core clock speed

1238 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

208th of 597

172nd of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

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 Laptop benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1060 has significantly more memory with 6 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 RTX 3050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 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 3050 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 1060.