NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.7GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps +301%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2257 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

320bit

216.7GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

14

1280

Shading Units

448

80

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

40

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

215W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GF100

GP106-410-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-275-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

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