NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (2520MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

15232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2TB/s vs 1.01TB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +1998%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090

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GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Dec 2016

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

9

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

1152

512

TMUs

72

176

ROPs

48

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GP104

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

16 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

120W

850 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 16-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

8.9

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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