NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1708MHz vs 1695MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

9344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +804%

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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GeForce RTX 3090

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

82

-

Compute Units

-

1152

Shading Units

10496

72

TMUs

328

48

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

328

-

RT Cores

82

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA102

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-300-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

350W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 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

6.6

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