NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1709MHz vs 1695MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

9216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +713%

35.58 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4207

GeForce RTX 3090 +374%

19948

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

9

GeForce RTX 3090 +933%

93

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

32

GeForce RTX 3090 +381%

154

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

50

GeForce RTX 3090 +300%

200

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

27

GeForce RTX 3090 +329%

116

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

50

GeForce RTX 3090 +278%

189

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

74

GeForce RTX 3090 +168%

199

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3090

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Sep 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

1395 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

82

1280

Shading Units

10496

80

TMUs

328

48

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

328

-

RT Cores

82

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

350W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 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

GA102

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-300-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

628 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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