NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 1484.99 significantly less expensive

$ 1819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

33119 points

1494% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

787 FPS

743 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

382 FPS

348 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

567 FPS

539 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

318 FPS

292 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

9236 points

154% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

11723.75 points

3060% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

318192 points

883% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

273214 points

783% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

2235 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

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

274% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

2nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 October

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 4090 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4090 beats the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4090 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 is better than the GeForce GTX 1060.