NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Price

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$ 349.00

$ 250.99 significantly less expensive

$ 599.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

20 %

51 %

155% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

41 FPS

123 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

60 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

86 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

47 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3644

8714

139% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

378.62

2445.24

545% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129

99213

218% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388

96416

197% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476

74845

137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

27508

89470

225% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31760

84353

165% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

29% slightly higher core clock speed

1320 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

41% slightly lower TDP

170 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

122nd of 549

41st of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

January 2021

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 3060 benchmarks

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

The GeForce GTX 1060 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 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 over the GeForce GTX 1060.