NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

4043 points

94% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

94 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

49 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

68 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

37 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

177% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1312 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

1823.85 points

391% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

83470 points

168% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

79123 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

72991 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

70140 points

126% 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

123rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 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 RTX A2000 12GB specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the RTX A2000 12GB GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming.

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.

In addition, the RTX A2000 12GB has a significantly lower TDP at 70 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the RTX A2000 12GB is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060.