NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2020
Jan 2018
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1395 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1709 MHz
Memory Clock
1219 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
24GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
936.2GB/s
192.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
82
10
Shading Units
10496
1280
TMUs
328
80
ROPs
112
48
Tensor Cores
328
-
RT Cores
82
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
189.8 GPixel/s
82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
556.0 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
35.58 TFLOPS
68.36 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
35.58 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
556.0 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
GP106
GPU Variant
GA102-300-A1
GP106-400-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Pascal
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
16 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
4.4 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
350W
120W
Suggested PSU
750 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
6.6
6.4