GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

GN20-E3 GA106

GP104

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1702 MHz

1709 MHz

Core clock speed

817 MHz

1506 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

7,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)

120 Watt

Texture fill rate

171.0

136.7

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5X

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

8 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

336.0 GB/s

256.3 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

8.6

6.1

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2

1.3