NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1708MHz vs 1620MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 +89%

7.465 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3849

GeForce RTX 2070 +130%

8861

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

15

GeForce RTX 2070 +146%

37

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

29

GeForce RTX 2070 +134%

68

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

44

GeForce RTX 2070 +122%

98

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

25

GeForce RTX 2070 +116%

54

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

46

GeForce RTX 2070 +108%

96

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

67

GeForce RTX 2070 +91%

128

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 2070

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1620 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

9

SM Count

36

1152

Shading Units

2304

72

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.7 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

233.3 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.93 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.465 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

233.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

TU106

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-400A-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

445 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

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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