NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2018
Nov 2021
Generation
GeForce 10
Quadro
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
562 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5X
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
192bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
26
Shading Units
1280
3328
TMUs
80
104
ROPs
48
48
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
3 MB
Tensor Cores
—
104
RT Cores
—
26
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
82.03 GPixel/s
57.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
124.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
7.987 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
7.987 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
GA106
GPU Variant
GP104-150-KA-A1
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Architecture
Pascal
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
16 nm
8 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
12 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
70W
Suggested PSU
300 W
250 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
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
6.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
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5,834
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
2,681
OctaneBench
—
227
Blender
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1,885
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.