NVIDIA RTX A500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500
- Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
- Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 1770 MHz vs 1708 MHz
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 16 nm
- 2x lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 120 Watt
| Launch date | 10 Nov 2021 vs 25 December 2016 |
| Boost clock speed | 1770 MHz vs 1708 MHz |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm vs 16 nm |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 60 Watt vs 120 Watt |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104
- Around 5% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1440 MHz
- 4.6x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
| Core clock speed | 1506 MHz vs 1440 MHz |
| Memory clock speed | 8008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective |
Compare specifications (specs)
| NVIDIA RTX A500 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 | |
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Essentials |
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| Architecture | Ampere | Pascal |
| Code name | GA107 | GP104 |
| Launch date | 10 Nov 2021 | 25 December 2016 |
| Place in performance rating | not rated | not rated |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $199 | |
| Type | Desktop | |
Technical info |
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| Boost clock speed | 1770 MHz | 1708 MHz |
| Core clock speed | 1440 MHz | 1506 MHz |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm | 16 nm |
| Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance | 113.3 GFLOPS (1:64) | |
| Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance | 7.250 TFLOPS (1:1) | |
| Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance | 7.250 TFLOPS | |
| Pipelines | 2048 | |
| Pixel fill rate | 56.64 GPixel/s | |
| Texture fill rate | 113.3 GTexel/s | |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 60 Watt | 120 Watt |
| Transistor count | 7,200 million | |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Display Connectors | No outputs | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Form factor | Single-slot | |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Recommended system power (PSU) | 250 Watt | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | 1x 6-pin |
| Length | 250 mm | |
API support |
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| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12.0 (12_1) |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | |
| Vulkan | ||
Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | |
| Memory bandwidth | 112.0 GB/s | |
| Memory bus width | 64 bit | |
| Memory clock speed | 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective | 8008 MHz |
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
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