NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1708MHz vs 1680MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 +63%

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

9

SM Count

30

1152

Shading Units

1920

72

TMUs

120

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

160W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

TU104

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-150-KC-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

545 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

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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