NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1708MHz vs 1683MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 +64%

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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GeForce GTX 1070

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

9

SM Count

15

1152

Shading Units

1920

72

TMUs

120

48

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GP104

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

16 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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