NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 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 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1777MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +223%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

9

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1152

112

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GP106

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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