NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 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

1789 points

6815 points

280% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

167 FPS

130 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

80 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS

118 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

63 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3292 points

11700 points

255% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

347.28 points

3000.82 points

764% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

28312 points

128321 points

353% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29934 points

120183 points

301% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32085 points

95490 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points

112303 points

246% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points

115945 points

293% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

1410 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz

1665 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

448 GB/s

133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

150% significantly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s

133.2 Gigapixels/s

87% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s

253.1 Gigatexels/s

113% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.79 TFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

327% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

4864

280% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

89% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

66% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

222nd of 586

71st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2020 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a slightly 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 200 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 RTX 3060 Ti over the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q.