NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Price

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$ 1549.99

$ 289.00

$ 1260.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

579% significantly better overall score

2058 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

291 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

136 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

214 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

105 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

29 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

1945% significantly higher Blender score

284.61 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

238123 points

645% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

31922 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

204921 points

503% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33958 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

138859 points

309% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33939 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

482% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33375 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

454% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32433 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

1506 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

1708 MHz

0.77% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

387% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

120 W

191% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

131% significantly higher pixel rate

81.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

352% significantly higher texture rate

123 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

804% significantly better floating point performance

3.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

811% significantly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

355% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

133% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

206th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3090 beats the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a slightly 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 GeForce GTX 1060 3GB also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3090 over the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.