NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA RTX A400

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

NVIDIA RTX A400

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 4GB VRAM RTX A400 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A400 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1762MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +45%

3.935 TFLOPS

RTX A400

2.706 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

RTX A400

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Apr 2024

GeForce 10

Generation

Quadro Ampere(Ax000)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1417 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1762 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

9

SM Count

6

1152

Shading Units

768

72

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

24

-

RT Cores

6

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.19 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.29 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.706 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.706 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.29 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA107

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

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

6.8

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