NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A2000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A2000

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 189.96 significantly less expensive

$ 524.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

3755 points

80% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

96 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

45 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

64 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

35 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

170% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1346 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

1954.21 points

426% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

84002 points

169% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

76373 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

58378 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

73300 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

69543 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

203% significantly higher core clock speed

562 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

70 W

71% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

130th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 August

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 RTX A2000 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the RTX A2000 beats the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming performance.

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

In addition, the RTX A2000 has a significantly lower TDP at 70 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A2000 over the GeForce GTX 1060.