GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs GeForce GTX 470 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages
Boost Clock1708MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 107.1GB/s)
800 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+360%
3935
GeForce GTX 470 X2
855
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1708 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
107.1GB/s
Render Config
9
SM Count
11
1152
Shading Units
352
72
TMUs
44
48
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
81.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.38 GPixel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.75 GTexel/s
61.49 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.935 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
855.4 GFLOPS
123.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
120W
TDP
215W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
3x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
GF100
GP106-300-A1
GPU Variant
GF100-030-A3
Pascal
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
2.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
