NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2016
Mar 2022
Generation
GeForce 10
Ampere-MW
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
832 MHz
Boost Clock
1708 MHz
1537 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
64bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
96.00GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
9
16
Shading Units
1152
2048
TMUs
72
64
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
2 MB
Tensor Cores
-
64
RT Cores
-
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
81.98 GPixel/s
49.18 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
123.0 GTexel/s
98.37 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
61.49 GFLOPS
6.296 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.935 TFLOPS
6.296 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.0 GFLOPS
98.37 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
GA107S
GPU Variant
GP106-300-A1
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Architecture
Pascal
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
16 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
8.7 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
30W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
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
6.8
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,863
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,771
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OctaneBench
76
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
29
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
44
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Blender
188
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