NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2018
Jan 2021
Generation
GeForce 10
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1627 MHz
Boost Clock
1708 MHz
1852 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
192bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
336.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
30
Shading Units
1280
3840
TMUs
80
120
ROPs
48
48
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
3 MB
Tensor Cores
-
120
RT Cores
-
30
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
81.98 GPixel/s
88.90 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.6 GTexel/s
222.2 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.32 GFLOPS
14.22 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.372 TFLOPS
14.22 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.6 GFLOPS
222.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
GA106
GPU Variant
GP104-150-KA-A1
GA106-400-A1
Architecture
Pascal
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
16 nm
8 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
12 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
185W
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