NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1777MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +223%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

1152

Shading Units

3584

72

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA104

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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