NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1725MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +364%

20.31 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3909

GeForce RTX 3070 +248%

13637

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

GeForce RTX 3070 +231%

53

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

40

GeForce RTX 3070 +137%

95

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

GeForce RTX 3070 +188%

144

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

30

GeForce RTX 3070 +170%

81

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

54

GeForce RTX 3070 +161%

141

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

GeForce RTX 3070 +157%

188

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

5888

80

TMUs

184

40

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GA104

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

220W

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 12-pin

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

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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