NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

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

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1708MHz vs 1680MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 +63%

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

9

1920

Shading Units

1152

120

TMUs

72

48

ROPs

48

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

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

TU104

GPU Name

GP106

TU104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-300-A1

Turing

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

16 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

200 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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