GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GP106
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2018
September 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1709 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x 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
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3