NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points

4043 points

96% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

42 FPS

94 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

49 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

68 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

37 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

1823.85 points

540% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31922 points

83470 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points

79123 points

133% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

72991 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

70140 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

167% significantly higher core clock speed

562 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

42% slightly higher boost clock speed

1200 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

Identical

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

288 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

70 W

71% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

42% slightly higher pixel rate

57.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

124.8 Gigatexels/s

1% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS

7.99 TFLOPS

102% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

3328

188% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

44% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

207th of 592

123rd of 592

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2021 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs RTX A2000 12GB benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the RTX A2000 12GB beats the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 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 GTX 1060 3GB also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the RTX A2000 12GB has a significantly lower TDP at 70 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A2000 12GB over the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.