GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GP106

GN20-P0-R 6 GB

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

December 2017

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1709 MHz

1492 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

1237 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,375 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

4,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

136.7

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

5 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

160 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

8008 MHz

12000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

160.2 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12_2

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131