NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q 6 GB, 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

2457 points

3792 points

54% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

82 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

52 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

58 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

39 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points

1340.13 points

254% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

34034 points

64172 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points

68305 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points

50239 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

68305 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

50377 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

150% significantly higher core clock speed

600 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

1215 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

Identical

6 GiB

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

60 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s

5% slightly higher pixel rate

77.76 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

145.8 Gigatexels/s

6% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.04 TFLOPS

4.67 TFLOPS

15% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

1920

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 586

128th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

2019 May

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 6GB vs Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q comparison

For gaming, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 6GB also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.