NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 1.70 slightly less expensive

$ 336.70

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

4988 points

140% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

115 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

66 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

28 FPS

78 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

50 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

7843 points

115% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

2173.35 points

485% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

94250 points

202% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

85184 points

163% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

66795 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

84977 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

79052 points

155% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

69% significantly higher core clock speed

1005 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

33% slightly lower TDP

160 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

208th of 597

102nd of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

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 Quadro RTX 4000 comparison

For gaming, the Quadro RTX 4000 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro RTX 4000 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Quadro RTX 4000 at 160 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro RTX 4000 over the GeForce GTX 1060.