NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 399.00

$ 336.70

$ 62.30 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2457 points

4933 points

100% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

114 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

65 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

78 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

49 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and the Quadro RTX 4000? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points

2173.35 points

475% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

34034 points

94250 points

176% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points

85184 points

133% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points

66795 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

84977 points

132% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

79052 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

49% significantly higher core clock speed

1005 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

1545 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

416 GB/s

116% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

33% slightly lower TDP

160 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s

98.88 Gigapixels/s

20% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

222.5 Gigatexels/s

62% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.04 TFLOPS

7.12 TFLOPS

76% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

2304

79% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

79% 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

103rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

2018 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 6GB vs Quadro RTX 4000 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB beats the Quadro RTX 4000 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that 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 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro RTX 4000 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Quadro RTX 4000 at 160 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB over the Quadro RTX 4000.