NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1709MHz vs 1650MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +64%

7.181 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

430

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +426%

2264

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

75

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +212%

234

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +300%

36

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +88%

64

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

51

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +80%

92

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

28

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +71%

48

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

52

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +80%

94

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

75

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +62%

122

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jul 2019

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

34

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2176

80

TMUs

136

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

34

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

105.6 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

TU106

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-410-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

12 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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