GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and RTX A40 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

RTX A40

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GP106

GA102

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

July 2016

October 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

1708 MHz

1755 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

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

136.7

589.7

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

14.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

695.8 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

3x DisplayPort

HDMI

+

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2

VR Ready

+

-