NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 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 Clock has increased by 21% (1709MHz vs 1410MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 216.7GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM +279%

16.6 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

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GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

2257 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

216.7GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

5888

80

TMUs

184

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

135.4 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

259.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.60 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.60 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

259.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GA104

GP106-410-A1

GPU Variant

-

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 8-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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