NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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

Released 2 years and 3 months late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

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

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +191%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +388%

44

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +135%

80

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +127%

116

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

51

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +96%

55

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

28

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +94%

101

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +89%

142

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

75

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Oct 2018

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

1001 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0GB/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

GP104

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

276 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

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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