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

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N17E-G1

GA107

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

August 2016

July 2022

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

SLI options

Boost clock speed

1708 MHz

990 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

CUDA cores

1280

Floating-point performance

4,275 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

4,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

80 Watt

35 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

94 °C

Texture fill rate

133.6

63.36

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

144.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

DP 1.43, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI

Portable Device Dependent

Multi monitor support

HDCP

2.2

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3

Ansel

GameStream

GPU Boost

3.0

VR Ready