NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (2520MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

15104 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +1787%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 4090 +2904%

12921

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

430

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4090 +1604%

1278

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

75

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +1955%

185

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +723%

280

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +496%

304

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

51

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +564%

186

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

28

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +290%

203

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +184%

213

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

75

GeForce RTX 4090

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Oct 2018

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

1709 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5X

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1008GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

1280

512

TMUs

80

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

82.03 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GP104

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-150-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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