EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING
vs
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE 6G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING and the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE 6G, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 and has 2560 texture shaders and 20 execution units.

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE 6G is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, which has 1280 shaders and 10 execution units.
EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING GPU GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE 6G
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
GA106-150-A1 GPU Chip GP106-400-A1
Ampere Architecture Pascal
20 Streaming Multiprocessors 10
2560 Shader 1280
48 Render Output Units 48
80 Texture Units 80
20 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE 6G can access 6 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.002 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING clocks in the base with up to 1.552 GHz. The base frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE 6G is 1.506 GHz.

1.552 GHz Base Clock 1.506 GHz
1.845 GHz Boost Clock 1.746 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.71 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING is 130 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE 6G has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connectors.

130 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE 6G has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE 6G supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 2x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE 6G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 No
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING is 202 mm long, 110 mm high and -- wide.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE 6G is 223 mm long, 121 mm high and 39 mm wide.

202 mm Length 223 mm
110 mm Height 121 mm
-- Width 39 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING was released in Q1/2022 at a price of 249 $ (Reference).

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE 6G was introduced in Q3/2016 at a price of 249 $ (Reference).

08G-P5-3553-KR Part-no GV-N1060WF2-6GD
Q1/2022 Release date Q3/2016
249 $ (Reference) Launch Price 249 $ (Reference)
8 nm Structure size 16 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING
8 GB GDDR6
26 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING
8 GB GDDR6
39 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING
8 GB GDDR6
43 fps (avg)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING
8 GB GDDR6
5 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING
8 GB GDDR6
19 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING
8 GB GDDR6
46 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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