NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 3% (1708MHz vs 1665MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 225W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

3712 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +311%

16.2 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3847

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +218%

12239

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

15

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +233%

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

29

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +210%

90

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

44

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +213%

138

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

25

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +196%

74

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

46

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +184%

131

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

67

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +158%

173

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

38

-

Compute Units

-

1152

Shading Units

4864

72

TMUs

152

48

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GA104

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-202-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

225W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 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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