GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 and RTX A4000 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

RTX A4000

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GP104

GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

March 2018

April 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1708 MHz

1560 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

6144

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

140 Watt

Texture fill rate

136.6

299.5

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

8008 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

448.0 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

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3