NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation 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

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (2175MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

4992 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +579%

26.73 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

188

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +2419%

4737

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

76

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +547%

492

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Aug 2023

GeForce 10

Generation

Quadro Ada(x000A)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

2175 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

160bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

9

SM Count

48

1152

Shading Units

6144

72

TMUs

192

48

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

174.0 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

417.6 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.73 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

26.73 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

AD104

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

294 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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.8

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