GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs A2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
A2 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1770MHz vs 1708MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
3935
A2
+15%
4531
Blender
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
188
A2
+379%
902
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Nov 2021
GeForce 10
Generation
Quadro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
1440 MHz
1708 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
200.1GB/s
Render Config
9
SM Count
10
1152
Shading Units
1280
72
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
81.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
61.49 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.531 TFLOPS
3.935 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.531 TFLOPS
123.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
60W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
GA107
GP106-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
16 nm
Process Size
8 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
Unknown
200 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
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
