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GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 2060

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1060 comes with a clock frequency of 1506 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 16 nm design. It is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 2060, which makes use of a 12 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1365 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 1920 SPUs as well as 120 TAUs and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 120 Watts
GeForce RTX 2060 160 Watts
Difference: 40 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2060 should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060 344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 196608 MB/sec
Difference: 147456 (75%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be a lot (approximately 36%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060 163800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 120480 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 43320 (36%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is the winner, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060 65520 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6768 (10%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 2060
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year July 2016 January 2019
Code Name GP106-400 TU106-200A-KA-A1
Memory 6144 MB 6144 MB
Core Speed 1506 MHz 1365 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 160 watts
Bandwidth 196608 MB/sec 344064 MB/sec
Texel Rate 120480 Mtexels/sec 163800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 72288 Mpixels/sec 65520 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1280 1920
Texture Mapping Units 80 120
Render Output Units 48 48
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 192-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 12 nm
Transistors 4400 million 10800 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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