NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 1214.99 significantly less expensive

$ 1549.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

13991 points

573% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

333 FPS

289 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

169 FPS

135 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

241 FPS

213 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

134 FPS

108 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

19931 points

448% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

5820.93 points

1469% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

238123 points

664% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

204921 points

532% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

138859 points

341% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

194465 points

500% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

179816 points

481% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

24 GiB

300% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

191% significantly lower TDP

350 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

25th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

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 3090 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1060 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 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 significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 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 3090 over the GeForce GTX 1060.