NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (2520MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

15104 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +1787%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +767%

36499

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4207

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +1955%

185

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

9

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +775%

280

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

32

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +508%

304

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +588%

186

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +306%

203

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

50

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +187%

213

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

74

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Jul 2016

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

128

SM Count

10

16384

Shading Units

1280

512

TMUs

80

176

ROPs

48

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

450W

TDP

120W

850 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GP106

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

16 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

609 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

8.9

CUDA

6.1

6.8

Shader Model

6.4

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