Chris

My card isn't really listed either. The 3050 6GB version is not just different in VRAM capacity. They have different clock speeds, different amount of cuda cores and I think they're built on a different type if chip. An older GPU could definitely be better than my card because there are a lot of cards from earlier generations that outperform the 3050 Laptop 4GB. Your GTX 1060 3GB is getting 52% and mine 56,4% average in benchmarks. My card is probably around 10% faster so it's actually not that big of a difference.

I just added my hardware to the hf profile and I had to find out that I'm offically GPU-poor according to hf. The worst part is that after I found out that I'm GPU-poor I noticed that the 3050 Laptop GPU is listed only as the 6GB Version so I'm even worse with my 4GB version of the 3050 Laptop. Back when I bought the Laptop I didn't know anything about GPUs so I just thought any recent GPU would be good enough after using Intel's integrated graphics of the i-5 8250u CPU for almost 5 years. I think Nvidia could really show a heart for people like me who suffer the consequences of their VRAM-stinginess especially now considering they got AI-rich. It seems like 'give them as little VRAM as we possibly can' is like their unofficial company policy or something, at least I don't see how else you could justify downgrading the 4060 to 8GB from 12GB in the 3060. If the rumors are true and the 5060 is also only getting 8GB it's getting ridiculous that they had 50% more VRAM 2 gens ago already. Maybe handing out some free GPU's could be a good idea to make up for that and generate some positive publicity