NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 289.00

$ 2543.00 significantly less expensive

$ 2832.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points

2% slightly better overall score

2012 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

42 FPS

52 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

30 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

30 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

19 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

1534.25 points

439% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31922 points

70456 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points

61102 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points

54040 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

62696 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

58257 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

59% significantly higher core clock speed

945 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

80 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586

208th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Quadro RTX 3000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB GPU is faster than the Quadro RTX 3000 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

In addition, the Quadro RTX 3000 has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is better than the Quadro RTX 3000.