NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2016
Jan 2021
Generation
GeForce 10
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1627 MHz
Boost Clock
1708 MHz
1852 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
192bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
336.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
9
30
Shading Units
1152
3840
TMUs
72
120
ROPs
48
48
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
3 MB
Tensor Cores
-
120
RT Cores
-
30
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
81.98 GPixel/s
88.90 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
123.0 GTexel/s
222.2 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
61.49 GFLOPS
14.22 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.935 TFLOPS
14.22 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.0 GFLOPS
222.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
GA106
GPU Variant
GP106-300-A1
GA106-400-A1
Architecture
Pascal
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
16 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
12 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
185W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
6.1
8.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,863
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,771
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OctaneBench
76
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
29
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
44
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Blender
188
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