NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

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

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (120W vs 184W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +64%

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +318%

1893

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

452

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +136%

177

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

75

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +233%

30

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +76%

60

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +78%

91

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

51

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +60%

45

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

28

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +65%

86

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +56%

117

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

75

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

34

SM Count

10

2176

Shading Units

1280

136

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

48

272

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

184W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GP104

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Turing

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

16 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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