NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Full Specs

Summary

1,280 Shaders 1.71GHz	3,584 Shaders 1.78GHz
6GB GDDR5192GB/s	12GB GDDR6360GB/s
Peak·FP32·FP16 4.37 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 12.74 TFLOPS
Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
TDP 120W	TDP 170W
Power Connectors - 1x 6-Pin	Power Connectors 1x 12-Pin -

Highlights

Peak OPS

Peak OPS FP32 FP16 Tensor FP16-16 FP16-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-32 FP16-32 Tensor Sparse FP64 BF16 Tensor BF16 BF16 Tensor Sparse Tensor TF32 Tensor INT8 Tensor INT4 Memory Bandwidth TDP

GeForce GTX 10604.37 TFLOPSFP32

x1

GeForce RTX 3060407.6 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse

x93.22

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1708MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1777MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 4.37 TFLOPSFP32	Peak OPS 407.6 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse
-	Tensor FP16-16 50.95 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 101.9 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 25.48 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 50.95 TFLOPS
-	BF16 12.74 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 25.48 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 50.95 TFLOPS
Tensor TF32 -	Tensor TF32 12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 4.37 TFLOPS	FP32 12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 136.6 GFLOPS	FP64 199 GFLOPS
Tensor INT4 -	Tensor INT4 203.8 TOPS
-	Tensor INT8 101.9 TOPS
Ray -	Ray 19.21 TOPS
Pixel Rate 82 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 85.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 136.6 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 199 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 1,280 Shaders	Shaders 3,584 Shaders
TMUs 80 TMUs	TMUs 112 TMUs
ROPs 48 ROPs	ROPs 48 ROPs
Tensor Cores -	Tensor Cores 112 T-Cores
RT Cores -	RT Cores 28 RT-Cores
SMs 10 SMs	SMs 28 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock 1.51GHz	Base Clock 1.32GHz
Boost Clock 1.71GHz	Boost Clock 1.78GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 1.5MB shared

L2 Cache 3.1MB shared

Memory

6GB GDDR5	12GB GDDR6
Memory Bus 192-bit	Memory Bus 192-bit
Memory Speed 8GT/s	Memory Speed 15GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 192GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 360GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP 120W	TDP 170W
Max Temp -	Max Temp 93°C Max

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 3	Multi-Monitor 4
HDCP -	HDCP HDCP 2.3

Ports

3x DisplayPort 1.4	3x DisplayPort 1.4
-	1x HDMI 2.1
1x HDMI 2.0	-
1x DVI-D Dual-Link	-

Encoder

Encoder Model NVENC 4

Encoder Model NVENC 7

Decoder

Decoder Model NVDEC 3

Decoder Model NVDEC 5

Card

Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
PCIe 2-Slots	PCIe 1.9-Slots
Height 112 mm (4.41") Width 250 mm (9.84") Depth 40 mm (1.57")	Height 112 mm (4.41") Width 242 mm (9.53") Depth 38 mm (1.5")
Cooling Blower 1x Fan	Cooling Open-Air 2x Fans
Power Connectors 1x 6-Pin	Power Connectors 1x 12-Pin

Chip

Manufacturer NVIDIA	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer NVIDIA	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture Pascal	Architecture Ampere
Family GeForce 10	Family GeForce 30
Branding	Branding
Codename NV136	Codename NV176
Chip Variant GP106-300-A1	Chip Variant GA106-150-KA-A1
Market Segment Desktop	Market Segment Desktop
Release Date Jul 19, 2016	Release Date Feb 25, 2021

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry Samsung
Fabrication Node 16FF	Fabrication Node 8N
Die Size 200mm²	Die Size 276mm²
Transistor Count 4.4 Billion	Transistor Count 13.3 Billion
Transistor Density 22 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 48.01 MTr/mm²

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Used In

Laptops Surface Book 2 15(Late 2017)	Laptops -
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All-in-Ones Surface Studio 2(Late 2018)	All-in-Ones Surface Studio 2+(Late 2022)

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