NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Price

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$ 289.00

$ 1530.99 significantly less expensive

$ 1819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points

33119 points

1509% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

42 FPS

787 FPS

745 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

382 FPS

349 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

567 FPS

540 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

318 FPS

289 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

11723.75 points

4019% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

318192 points

853% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

273214 points

742% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

2235 MHz

48% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

2520 MHz

47% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

1010 GB/s

425% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

274% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

483.8 Gigapixels/s

490% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

1290 Gigatexels/s

948% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

1998% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

16384

1322% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

512

611% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586

2nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2022 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce RTX 4090 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4090 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4090 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.