GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and RTX 4500 Ada Generation - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
RTX 4500 Ada Generation
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
GP104
AD103
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2018
August 2023
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1709 MHz
2580 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
45,900 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
7680
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
210 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
619.2
Memory type
GDDR5X
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
24 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
18 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
432.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
6.1
8.9
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3