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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics comparison: performance score, cores and clock speeds, VRAM, TGP, cache, and RT and AI units. The better value in each row is highlighted in green.

Summary

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 offers more compute units (CUDA cores: 3840 vs 2560), a higher boost clock (1703 MHz vs 1492 MHz), a wider memory bus (192 bit vs 96 bit), higher memory bandwidth (336 GB/s vs 168 GB/s), and more L2 cache (3 MB vs 1.5 MB).

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Key specs

CUDA cores2560
CUDA cores3840
Boost1492 MHz
Boost1703 MHz
VRAM6 GB
VRAM6 GB
Memory bus96 bit
Memory bus192 bit
TGP35–95 W
TGP60–130 W
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6

General

SeriesRTX 30 Mobile
SeriesRTX 30 Mobile
GPU architectureAmpere
GPU architectureAmpere
GPU chipGA107
GPU chipGA106
Chip variantGN20-P0-R-K2
Chip variantGN20-E3
FoundrySamsung
FoundrySamsung
Process node8 nm
Process node8 nm
Die size200 mm²
Die size276 mm²
Transistors8.7 billion
Transistors12 billion
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Release dateJuly 6, 2022
Release dateJanuary 12, 2021

Cores and clocks

CUDA cores2560
CUDA cores3840

20× SM

30× SM

Boost clock (max)1492 MHz
Boost clock (max)1703 MHz
Boost clock (min)990 MHz
Boost clock (min)1283 MHz

Memory

VRAM6 GB
VRAM6 GB
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
Memory bus96 bit
Memory bus192 bit
Memory speed14 Gb/s
Memory speed14 Gb/s
Bandwidth168 GB/s
Bandwidth336 GB/s

TGP

TGP range35 - 80 W
TGP range60 - 115 W
Dynamic Boost15 W
Dynamic Boost15 W

Cache

L2 cache1.5 MB
L2 cache3 MB
L1 cache128 KB
L1 cache128 KB

Units

TMUs80
TMUs120
ROPs32
ROPs48
RT cores20
RT cores30
Tensor cores80
Tensor cores120
SM blocks20
SM blocks30

AI

AI performanceN/A
AI performanceN/A

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