A consumer GPU against a workstation card, one Pascal and one Turing: 6 GB GDDR5 against 24 GB GDDR6, 3.5x the memory bandwidth on the Quadro RTX 6000, and NVLink 100 GB/s on the Quadro RTX 6000 where the GTX 1060 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 6 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 192 GB/s
- From
- $0.03 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 672 GB/s
- From
- $1.50 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | GTX 1060 | Quadro RTX 6000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.03 | $1.50 | 50x more expensive on Quadro RTX 6000 |
| Spot | $0.02 | No spot listings | |
| Median | $0.03 | $1.50 | 50x more expensive on Quadro RTX 6000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GTX 1060 vs Quadro RTX 6000 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GTX 1060 | Quadro RTX 6000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 6 GB GDDR5 | 24 GB GDDR6 | 4x more on Quadro RTX 6000 |
| Bandwidth | 192 GB/s | 672 GB/s | 3.5x higher on Quadro RTX 6000 |
| Bus width | 192-bit | 384-bit | 2x wider on Quadro RTX 6000 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 130.5 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | Not supported | 261 TOPS | Quadro RTX 6000 only |
| FP32 | 4.4 TFLOPS | 16.3 TFLOPS | 3.7x higher on Quadro RTX 6000 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | NVLink 100 GB/s | NVLink on Quadro RTX 6000 only |
| Board power | 120 W | 295 W | 2.5x higher on Quadro RTX 6000 |
| Released | Q3 2016 | Q3 2018 | 2 years newer on Quadro RTX 6000 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | |
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 Quadro RTX 6000 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | GTX 1060 /GPU/hr | Quadro RTX 6000 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.0300 | -- |
Akamai Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $1.50 |
Lambda Labs
|
-- | On-Demand $0.69 |
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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1060 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000 on Sept. 7, 2026.