NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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 3090 Ti 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1860MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

9472 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +814%

40 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +1402%

6459

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

430

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +766%

650

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

75

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +1066%

105

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +391%

167

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +311%

210

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

51

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +357%

128

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

28

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +286%

201

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +166%

200

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

75

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1560 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1860 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5X

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1008GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

1280

336

TMUs

80

112

ROPs

48

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

208.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

625.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

40.00 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

40.00 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

625.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GP104

GA102-350-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

120W

850 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 16-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

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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