NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1709MHz vs 1440MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 165W)

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 216.7GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

4.375 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe +135%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

2257 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

192bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

216.7GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

56

1280

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

224

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

165W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

GA100

GP106-410-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

8.0

6.4

Shader Model

N/A

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