NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1777MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +191%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +76%

7428

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4207

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +400%

45

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

9

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +165%

85

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

32

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +164%

132

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +96%

53

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +96%

98

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

50

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +89%

140

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

74

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jul 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

1709 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

10

3584

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

48

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

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

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 Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GP106

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

276 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

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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