NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 X2 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

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.7GB/s vs 107.1GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps +411%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 X2

0.855 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

VS

GeForce GTX 470 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

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

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2257 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

216.7GB/s

Bandwidth

107.1GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

11

1280

Shading Units

352

80

TMUs

44

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.38 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.75 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

855.4 GFLOPS

136.7 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

GP106-410-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

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