10 specifications

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

On paper, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 carries more memory (12 GB against 4 GB), the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 has more shading units, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 has a wider memory bus. Shading-unit counts are not directly comparable across different architectures, so read that row as context rather than a verdict. Specifications describe what each card is designed to do; how much of that either one holds under continuous load is a separate question.

10 specifications · 5 with a higher side

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

NVIDIA · GeForce GTX 16 · Desktop

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA · GeForce RTX 30 · Desktop

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Compute

Architecture

Turing (TU117-300)

Ampere (GA106-300)

Shading units

896

3,584

Base clock

1485 MHz

1320 MHz

Boost clock

1665 MHz

1777 MHz

Memory

4 GB

12 GB

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory bus

128-bit

192-bit

Power and platform

TDP

75 W

170 W

Process

12 nm

8 nm

Launched

2019-04-23

2021-02-25

A check marks the higher figure only on rows where higher is unambiguously better. Rows without one are not ties; they are specifications where “better” has no meaning.

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Every figure on this table is a design target. None of it is a measurement.

Nothing above describes how a graphics card behaves twenty minutes into a sustained workload, which is where two chips with nearly identical specifications routinely diverge. A boost clock is a ceiling the vendor permits, not a rate the chip sustains, and whether it holds depends on the cooling, the case, the power profile and the room. None of those appear on a specification sheet.

We deliberately do not reduce these figures to a single score. A composite invented from specifications would look authoritative and measure nothing, and choosing the weights would be choosing the winner.

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