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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Apr 2017 Jan 2022
Generation GeForce 10 GeForce 30
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1506 MHz 1515 MHz
Boost Clock 1709 MHz 1755 MHz
Memory Clock 2257 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 6GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 192bit 128bit
Bandwidth 216.7GB/s 224.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 10 18
Shading Units 1280 2304
TMUs 80 72
ROPs 48 32
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SM) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 1536 KB 2 MB
Tensor Cores 72
RT Cores 18
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 82.03 GPixel/s 56.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 136.7 GTexel/s 126.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 68.36 GFLOPS 8.087 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 4.375 TFLOPS 8.087 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 136.7 GFLOPS 126.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GP106 GA106
GPU Variant GP106-410-A1 GA106-150-KA-A1
Architecture Pascal Ampere
Foundry TSMC Samsung
Process Size 16 nm 8 nm
Transistors 4.4 billion 12 billion
Die Size 200 mm² 276 mm²
Board Design
TDP 120W 130W
Suggested PSU 300 W 300 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
CUDA 6.1 8.6
Shader Model 6.4 6.6