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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB. All released in 2016. MSRP range: $139 · $329. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

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Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.

Specs side-by-side

SpecNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
vram gb 412
vram type GDDR5—
tdp w 75—
cuda cores 768—

Synthetic benchmarks

Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
3DMark Fire Strike —21,653 points
3DMark Port Royal —5,072 points
3DMark Speed Way —2,192 points
3DMark Steel Nomad —1,978 points
3DMark Time Spy —8,754 points
Geekbench 6 OpenCL —82,071 points
Geekbench 6 Vulkan —91,383 points

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

  • Llama 7B: 19.1 tok/s

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

  • llama3.2:1b: 211.9 tok/s
  • llama3.2:1b: 184.0 tok/s
  • llama3.2:3b: 128.3 tok/s

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