NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 3% (1709MHz vs 1665MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (8GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +270%

16.2 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3910

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +198%

11685

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +206%

49

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

40

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +132%

93

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +158%

129

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

30

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +126%

68

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

54

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +125%

122

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +127%

166

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Dec 2020

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

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

38

1280

Shading Units

4864

80

TMUs

152

40

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

200W

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 Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GA104

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-200-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

6.6

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