Nvidia GTX 1060 vs Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada

The RTX 2000 Ada is newer, with 2.7x the memory and 17% more bandwidth. The GTX 1060 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

2.7x more on RTX 2000 Ada

GTX 1060: 6 GB

RTX 2000 Ada: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

17% higher on RTX 2000 Ada

GTX 1060: 192 GB/s

RTX 2000 Ada: 224 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

75% cheaper on GTX 1060

GTX 1060: $0.03 /GPU/hr

RTX 2000 Ada: $0.12 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	GTX 1060	RTX 2000 Ada
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03	$0.24 /GPU/hr from $0.12
Reserved	No reserved listings	On request
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.02	No spot listings

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for on-demand and spot on the GTX 1060: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

GTX 1060 vs RTX 2000 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	GTX 1060	RTX 2000 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	6 GB GDDR5	16 GB GDDR6	2.7x more on RTX 2000 Ada
Bandwidth	192 GB/s	224 GB/s	17% higher on RTX 2000 Ada
Bus width	192-bit	128-bit	50% wider on GTX 1060
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	96.0 TFLOPS	RTX 2000 Ada only
FP16 / BF16		48.0 TFLOPS
FP32	4.4 TFLOPS	12 TFLOPS	2.7x higher on RTX 2000 Ada
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	120 W	70 W	71% higher on GTX 1060
Released	Q3 2016	Q2 2024	8 years newer on RTX 2000 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: GTX 1060 datasheet and RTX 2000 Ada datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	GTX 1060	RTX 2000 Ada
Vast.ai USA	$0.0289 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Salad Distributed	$0.0300 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.12 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.24 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.24 /GPU/hr On-demand