NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q 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 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

7040 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q +605%

27.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

RTX A5000 12Q

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1170 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

9

SM Count

64

1152

Shading Units

8192

72

TMUs

256

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

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Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

230W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA102

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

-

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

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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