NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (2460MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 +245%

15.11 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3910

GeForce RTX 4060 +171%

10620

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

332

GeForce RTX 4060 +912%

3363

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

GeForce RTX 4060 +187%

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

40

GeForce RTX 4060 +135%

94

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

GeForce RTX 4060 +232%

166

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

30

GeForce RTX 4060 +116%

65

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

54

GeForce RTX 4060 +107%

112

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

GeForce RTX 4060 +121%

162

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 4060

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

May 2023

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1830 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2460 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2125 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

272.0GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

24

1280

Shading Units

3072

80

TMUs

96

40

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

24

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

118.1 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

236.2 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

15.11 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.11 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

236.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

115W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

AD107

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

AD107-400-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

159 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

6.7

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