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

Verdict: On llama2:7b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB generates 80.6 tokens/s (per llama.cpp GitHub (Vulkan performance scoreboard)) against 21.0 for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (per llama.cpp GitHub (Vulkan scoreboard)), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB. Released 2016 (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti), 2021 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB). MSRP range: $139 · $329. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

NVIDIA · Pascal

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

4 GB VRAM75W TDP$139 MSRP2016

Full NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Ampere

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

12 GB VRAM170W TDP$329 MSRP2021

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB benchmarks →

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.

Specs side-by-side

Spec	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
vram gb	4	12
vram type	GDDR5	GDDR6
tdp w	75	170
cuda cores	768	3584

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from 3DMark, Legit Reviews, Wccftech, HWBOT, Geekbench Browser, PassMark and Tom's Hardware; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

Benchmark	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	—	21,653 points
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better) Source: Legit Reviews, 3DMark, Wccftech	—	5,074 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	—	2,192 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	—	1,976 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	—	8,747 points
3DMark Time Spy (overall score) (higher is better) Source: Legit Reviews	—	9,755 points
3DMark Time Spy (overall) (higher is better) Source: HWBOT	2,320 points	—
Geekbench 6 OpenCL (higher is better) Source: Geekbench Browser	—	82,071 points
Geekbench 6 Vulkan (higher is better) Source: Geekbench Browser	—	91,383 points
PassMark G2D Mark (higher is better) Source: PassMark	—	984 pts
PassMark G3D Mark (higher is better) Source: PassMark	—	16,969 pts
Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy (lower is better) Source: Tom's Hardware	—	12 rank

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

llama3.2:1b-instruct: 45.2 tok/s (LocalScore)
llama2:7b: 21.0 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub (Vulkan scoreboard))
llama2:7b: 20.1 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub (Vulkan scoreboard))

All NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti AI benchmarks →

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

llama3.2:1b: 211.9 tok/s (TyoLab)
llama3.2:1b: 211.9 tok/s (TYO Lab blog)
llama3.2:1b: 185.0 tok/s (LocalScore (Mozilla Builders))

All NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB AI benchmarks →

Quick answers

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On llama2:7b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB generates 80.6 tokens/s (per llama.cpp GitHub (Vulkan performance scoreboard)) against 21.0 for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (per llama.cpp GitHub (Vulkan scoreboard)), best community run on file for each.

What did the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB cost at launch?

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti launched at a $139 MSRP and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB at $329. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.