GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 3060 GDDR6X - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

GeForce RTX 3060 GDDR6X

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N17P-G0 Max-Q

GA104

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2018

2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1139 - 1328 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

999 - 1189 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,700 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

3,300 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

34 - 40 Watt

195 Watt

Texture fill rate

53.12

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

7000 MHz

19 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

112.1 GB/s

304.1 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3