NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2016
Apr 2021
Generation
GeForce 10
Quadro Ampere
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
735 MHz
Boost Clock
1708 MHz
1560 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
9
48
Shading Units
1152
6144
TMUs
72
192
ROPs
48
96
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
4 MB
Tensor Cores
—
192
RT Cores
—
48
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
81.98 GPixel/s
149.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
123.0 GTexel/s
299.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
61.49 GFLOPS
19.17 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.935 TFLOPS
19.17 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.0 GFLOPS
299.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
GA104
GPU Variant
GP104-140-KA-A1
GA104-875-A1
Architecture
Pascal
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
16 nm
8 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
140W
Suggested PSU
300 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
6.1
8.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,863
11,079
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,771
5,367
OctaneBench
—
352
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.