GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 48% (2520MHz vs 1708MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
15232 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 450W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4090
+1998%
82580
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
3935
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4090
+840%
36328
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
3863
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 4090
+998%
19460
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
1771
Blender
GeForce RTX 4090
+6594%
12586
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
188
OctaneBench
GeForce RTX 4090
+1576%
1274
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
76
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 4090
+1133%
185
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 4090
+865%
280
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
29
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 4090
+590%
304
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
44
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4090
+644%
186
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
25
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4090
+341%
203
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
46
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4090
+217%
213
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
67
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Aug 2016
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2235 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
1708 MHz
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
1.01TB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
128
SM Count
9
16384
Shading Units
1152
512
TMUs
72
176
ROPs
48
512
Tensor Cores
-
128
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
72 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
443.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
81.98 GPixel/s
1290 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
123.0 GTexel/s
82.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
61.49 GFLOPS
82.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.935 TFLOPS
1290 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
450W
TDP
120W
850 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 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
GP106
AD102-300-A1
GPU Variant
GP106-300-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
16 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
4.4 billion
609 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
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
