NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

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GeForce GTX 1060 compared with GeForce RTX 2060

	NVIDIAGeForce GTX 1060	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 2060
Overview
Released
Released	July 2016	January 2019
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	Pascal	Turing
Shader cores
Shader cores	1,280 or 1,152	1,920 or 2,176
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,708 MHz or –	1,680 MHz or 1,650 MHz
Architecture
Architecture	Main figures and photo describe the original 6 GB Founders Edition. The 3 GB card has 1152 CUDA cores rather than 1280. Later 9 Gbps GDDR5 and GDDR5X cards were partner designs; unpublished general revision figures remain blank in their configurations.	NVIDIA reference GPU specifications; photo shows PNY's stock-clock 6 GB Blower partner card, whose cooler, dimensions and display connectors differ from the Founders Edition. The later 12 GB card has 2,176 CUDA cores rather than 1,920.
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	16 nm FinFET (original GP106)	–
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	No dedicated RT Cores	First-generation RT Cores; NVIDIA's original launch specification lists 30 RT Cores and 5 Giga Rays/s for 6 GB
AI cores
AI cores	No Tensor Cores	Second-generation Tensor Cores; 240 on the original 6 GB model according to NVIDIA's launch specification
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	No NVIDIA DLSS	NVIDIA DLSS 2.0 upscaling; no DLSS Frame Generation
Base clock
Base clock	1506 MHz base and 1708 MHz boost for the original 6 GB and stock-clock 3 GB cards. MSI GAMING X+ 6G (9 Gbps GDDR5) has 1708 MHz boost in Silent Mode, 1784 MHz Gaming Mode and 1809 MHz OC Mode. MSI ARMOR 6GD5X OC specifies 1544 MHz base and 1759 MHz boost; these factory OC figures are not assigned to every GDDR5X card.	1,365 MHz base and 1,680 MHz boost (6 GB); 1,470 MHz base and 1,650 MHz boost (12 GB)
Cache
Cache	1536 KB L2 cache (original GP106)	–
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	6 GB GDDR5, 3 GB GDDR5 or 6 GB GDDR5X	6 GB GDDR6 or 12 GB GDDR6
Memory bus
Memory bus	192-bit	192-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	192 GB/s or –	336 GB/s
Memory detail
Memory detail	Original 6 GB and 3 GB cards have 8 Gbps GDDR5, 192-bit bus and 192 GB/s bandwidth. NVIDIA confirms the later 9 Gbps GDDR5 refresh; MSI GAMING X+ lists 9026 MHz Gaming/Silent and 9126 MHz OC memory speed. MSI ARMOR 6GD5X OC verifies 6 GB GDDR5X, 192-bit bus and 8008 MHz memory speed, but publishes no bandwidth figure. Later revisions' first-sale dates are unverified.	14 Gbps GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus with 336 GB/s bandwidth on both revisions
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	120 W or –	160 W or 185 W
Interface
Interface	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 3.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	Original Founders Edition has 3 × DisplayPort 1.3/1.4, HDMI 2.0b and dual-link DVI; partner outputs vary	Original 6 GB NVIDIA page lists DisplayPort 1.4a, HDMI 2.0b, USB-C/VirtualLink and DVI-DL. The 12 GB regional table lists DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI-DL without USB-C; the current combined comparison table also omits USB-C. Up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.2. Partner connectors vary.
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320 (PNY stock 3 GB specification)	7680 × 4320; original specification states 4K 144 Hz or 8K 60 Hz over DisplayPort with DSC
Power connector
Power connector	1 × PCIe 6-pin on the original Founders Edition and stock PNY 3 GB; MSI GAMING X+ uses 1 × 8-pin, and MSI ARMOR GDDR5X OC uses 1 × 8-pin plus 1 × 6-pin	1 × PCIe 8-pin for both reference specifications
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	400 W (PNY stock 3 GB, MSI GAMING X+ and MSI ARMOR GDDR5X OC)	500 W (6 GB); 550 W (12 GB); NVIDIA reference power specifications
Slot width
Slot width	2-slot original Founders Edition; partner cards vary	2-slot (original 6 GB Founders Edition); 12 GB partner cards vary
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	–	228.60 × 112.6 mm, 2-slot (original 6 GB Founders Edition). NVIDIA's regional table repeats these dimensions for 12 GB, but no separate 12 GB Founders Edition design was verified.
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	–	Seventh-generation NVENC, fourth-generation NVDEC (NVIDIA comparison table); no hardware AV1 encode