GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N17E-G1
GA104
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
September 2021
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 12-pin
SLI options
-
-
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1280
-
Floating-point performance
4,275 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)
80 Watt
170 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
133.6
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
192 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.43, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
-
+
HDCP
2.2
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3
Ansel
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-