GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GP106

GA106

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

June 2017

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1480 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1265 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,789 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

4,400 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

80 Watt

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

118.4

142.2

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

8008 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.6

Vulkan

1.3