NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2615 points

7% slightly better overall score

2438 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

49 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

39 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS

32 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

257% significantly higher Blender score

324.97 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

58544 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

30206 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55123 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33671 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47251 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

36656 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

35111 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

33988 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

1506 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

1709 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

160 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192 GB/s

19% slightly higher memory bandwidth

160.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s

68.36 Gigapixels/s

102% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

136.7 Gigatexels/s

102% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.33 TFLOPS

4.38 TFLOPS

1% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

60% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

170th of 586

181st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2017 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs GeForce GTX 1060 5GB benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB 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 GTX 1060 5GB also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB.