GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and Quadro RTX A6000 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Quadro RTX A6000
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GP106
Ampere
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
August 2016
October 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
8-pin EPS
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
1800 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1410 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,935 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1152
10752
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
123.0
625.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
48 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
768.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
4x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
6.1
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
+
1.2