NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1709MHz vs 1695MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

4.339 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

332

A16 PCIe +53%

510

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

10

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

40

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GA107

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

200 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

6.6

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