NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2018
Oct 2022
Generation
GeForce 10
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1708 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
28
Shading Units
1280
3584
TMUs
80
112
ROPs
48
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
3 MB
Tensor Cores
—
112
RT Cores
—
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
81.98 GPixel/s
113.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.6 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.32 GFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.372 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.6 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
GA104
GPU Variant
GP104-150-KA-A1
GA104
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
195W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 12-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
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.