NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1852MHz vs 1709MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +225%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

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GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Jan 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

1627 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

30

1280

Shading Units

3840

80

TMUs

120

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

185W

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

GA106

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

12 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

276 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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