NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X NVIDIA A16 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1709MHz vs 1695MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

4.339 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

430

A16 PCIe +18%

510

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA107

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

314 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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