GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Ampere GA106
GP106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2021
January 2018
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1777 MHz
1709 MHz
Core clock speed
1320 MHz
1506 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
4,375 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
13,250 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
170 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
199.0
136.7
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
12 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
15000 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
360.0 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
8.6
6.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.4
Vulkan
1.2
1.2.131