NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 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

Lower TDP (120W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1777MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +191%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

160bit

Memory Bus

192bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

28

1280

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

112

40

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GA104

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-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

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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