NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation 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

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (2175MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (280.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +510%

26.73 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

430

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +1033%

4876

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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RTX 4000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Aug 2023

GeForce 10

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2175 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

160bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

280.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

48

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

6144

80

TMUs

192

48

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

174.0 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

417.6 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.73 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

26.73 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

AD104

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

5 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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