NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 4.79 slightly less expensive

$ 339.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

6694 points

222% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

161 FPS

117 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

77 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

113 FPS

85 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

61 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

57% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

3124.65 points

742% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

101567 points

213% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

99687 points

222% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

1925 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

66% significantly lower TDP

200 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 May

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 4060 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4060 beats the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that 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 GTX 1060 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 at 200 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4060 is better than the GeForce GTX 1060.