GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 4090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to GeForce GTX 1060 (17/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce GTX 1060
GeForce

GeForce GTX 1060

17/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 4090

89/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 4090
Efficiency 37.0 Poor 43.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 14.0 Poor 93.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 4090
Fire Strike 13132 72432
Night Raid 54686 195813
Port Royal 844 26127
Solar Bay 11278 187525
Time Spy 4203 36299
Wild Life Extreme 8510 85218

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 4090
CUDA 6.1 8.9
DLSS No DLSS 3
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 4090
1080p High 50 255
1080p Ultra 37 217
1440p Ultra 27 177
4K Ultra 13 106
CoD: Modern Warfare III 38322213 266263219151
Counter-Strike 2 96634218 33923818890
Cyberpunk 2077 302619- 22620814366
Far Cry 6 50453315 203179170104
Forza Horizon 5 68372916 275199193155
Ghost of Tsushima 2920169 18815213791
Hogwarts Legacy 3222189 20016313274
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 57493418 302284222118
The Witcher 3 54402613 292268191101

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 4090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 10515 75599
Face Detection (HP) 6356 78111
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 1462 15600
Image Segmentation (HP) 3872 36657
Image Super Resolution (Q) 8136 48114
Machine Translation (HP) 3149 6349
Object Detection (SP) 2096 21186
Pose Estimation (Q) 33181 289639
Style Transfer (SP) 67831 601428
Text Classification (SP) 1806 4074

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 4090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 100.2 img/sec 318.9 img/sec
Edge Detection 2.25 Gpixels/sec 21 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 48.1 img/sec 222.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.25 Gpixels/sec 2.38 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.58 Gpixels/sec 23.9 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 1.54 Gpixels/sec 14.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4220.5 FPS 48090.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 136.9 Gpixels/sec 1950 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 4090
Architecture Pascal Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GP106 AD102
Launch price (MSRP) $299 $1599
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 7700or above -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above
Released July 19, 2016 September 20, 2022
Segment Mid-range High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5060 -GeForce RTX 5090
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 4090
Base Clock 1506 MHz 2235 MHz
Boost Clock 1709 MHz 2520 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 10 128
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1536KB shared 72MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 176
Shading Units 1280 16384
Tensor Cores No 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 512

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 4090
Bus 192-bit 384-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 8000 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2002 MHz 2625 MHz
Memory Size 6 GB 24 GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6X

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 4090
DirectX 11 72 FPS 323 FPS
DirectX 12 37 FPS 151 FPS
G2D Mark 737 1303
GPU Compute 4246 Ops/s 26022 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 4090
Die Size 200 mm² 609 mm²
Fabrication Process 16 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 120 W 450 W
Transistor Count 4 billion 76.3 billion
Transistor Density 20 MTr/mm² 125.29 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 4090
Pixel Fill Rate 82 GPixel/s 444 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 137 GTexel/s 1290 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 4090
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) — Cinebench 2024

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