NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1709MHz vs 1665MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +270%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +213%

12265

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3910

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +212%

50

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +125%

90

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

40

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +176%

138

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +146%

74

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

30

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +142%

131

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

54

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +136%

173

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Dec 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

160bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

-

38

SM Count

10

4864

Shading Units

1280

152

TMUs

80

ROPs

40

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

120W

550 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

GA104

GPU Name

GP106

GA104-202-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-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

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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