GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and RTX A2000 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

RTX A2000 Mobile

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GP104

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

October 2018

April 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1709 MHz

1687 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

893 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

95 Watt (35 - 95 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

136.7

108.6

Memory type

GDDR5X

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

8008 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

176.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2