Nvidia GTX 1060 vs Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000

The Quadro RTX 6000 is newer, with 4x the memory and 3.5x the bandwidth. The GTX 1060 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

4x more on Quadro RTX 6000

GTX 1060: 6 GB

Quadro RTX 6000: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

3.5x higher on Quadro RTX 6000

GTX 1060: 192 GB/s

Quadro RTX 6000: 672 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

78% cheaper on GTX 1060

GTX 1060: $0.03 /GPU/hr

Quadro RTX 6000: $0.13 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	GTX 1060	Quadro RTX 6000
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03	-- /GPU/hr from $0.13
Reserved	No reserved listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.12 (12 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.02	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11

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 and on-demand, reserved and spot on the Quadro RTX 6000: 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 Quadro RTX 6000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

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 that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	GTX 1060	Quadro RTX 6000
Vast.ai USA	$0.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.13 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	$0.0300 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Akamai Cloud USA	--	$1.50 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lambda Labs USA	--	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand