GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GP104

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

October 2018

July 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1709 MHz

1492 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

136.7

95.49

Memory type

GDDR5X

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

8008 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

144.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

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

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3