NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

9344 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1708MHz vs 1695MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +804%

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3090 +417%

19888

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3845

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090 +520%

93

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 +431%

154

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

29

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 +354%

200

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

44

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090 +364%

116

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

25

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 +310%

189

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

46

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 +197%

199

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

67

GeForce RTX 3090

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GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

82

SM Count

9

-

Compute Units

-

10496

Shading Units

1152

328

TMUs

72

112

ROPs

48

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GP106

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

120W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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