NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Oct 2022
Jan 2018
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1320 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1709 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
2002 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
192bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
192.2GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
28
10
Shading Units
3584
1280
TMUs
112
80
ROPs
64
48
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
68.36 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA104
GP106
GPU Variant
GA104
GP106-400-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Pascal
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
16 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
4.4 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
200 mm²

Board Design

TDP
195W
120W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
6.1
Shader Model
6.7
6.4