GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Ampere GA106

GP106

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

January 2021

June 2017

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

1480 MHz

Core clock speed

1320 MHz

1265 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,789 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

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

118.4

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

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

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12.0

CUDA

8.6

6.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.5

Shader Model

6.5

5.0

Vulkan

1.2