GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

GP106

AD103

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

December 2017

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1709 MHz

1455 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,375 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

4 nm

Number of transistors

4,400 million

45,900 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

9728

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

136.7

442.3

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

5 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

160 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

8008 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

160.2 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.9

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3