NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, 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

6694 points

274% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

161 FPS

124 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

77 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS

113 FPS

88 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

61 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3292 points

42% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

347.28 points

3124.65 points

799% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points

101567 points

213% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points

99687 points

238% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

1925 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz

2075 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 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

80 W

150% significantly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s

132.8 Gigapixels/s

86% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s

381.8 Gigatexels/s

222% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.79 TFLOPS

24.44 TFLOPS

545% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

5888

360% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

129% 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

222nd of 586

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2023 May

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 4060 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4060 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4060 has a slightly 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 GeForce RTX 4060 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 at 200 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4060 over the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q.