GeForce RTX 4060 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4060 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 44% (2460MHz vs 1708MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
1920 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (115W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4060
+283%
15110
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
3935
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4060
+174%
10615
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
3863
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 4060
+180%
4959
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
1771
Blender
GeForce RTX 4060
+1688%
3363
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
188
OctaneBench
GeForce RTX 4060
+361%
351
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
76
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 4060
+206%
46
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 4060
+224%
94
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
29
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 4060
+277%
166
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
44
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4060
+160%
65
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
25
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4060
+143%
112
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
46
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4060
+141%
162
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
67
Graphics Card
May 2023
Release Date
Aug 2016
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1830 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
2460 MHz
Boost Clock
1708 MHz
2125 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
272.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
24
SM Count
9
3072
Shading Units
1152
96
TMUs
72
48
ROPs
48
96
Tensor Cores
-
24
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
24 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
118.1 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
81.98 GPixel/s
236.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
123.0 GTexel/s
15.11 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
61.49 GFLOPS
15.11 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.935 TFLOPS
236.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
115W
TDP
120W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD107
GPU Name
GP106
AD107-400-A1
GPU Variant
GP106-300-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
16 nm
18.9 billion
Transistors
4.4 billion
159 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
6.1
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
