GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2475MHz vs 1708MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
4736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104
3935
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+640%
29150
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
Aug 2024
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
1920 MHz
1708 MHz
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
9
SM Count
46
1152
Shading Units
5888
72
TMUs
184
48
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
36 MB
Theoretical Performance
81.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
61.49 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
3.935 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
123.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
200W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
AD104
GP104-140-KA-A1
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
5 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
