NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 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 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

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

4608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +364%

20.31 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

GeForce RTX 3070 +488%

53

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

GeForce RTX 3070 +179%

95

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

51

GeForce RTX 3070 +182%

144

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

28

GeForce RTX 3070 +189%

81

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

52

GeForce RTX 3070 +171%

141

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

75

GeForce RTX 3070 +150%

188

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

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

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

46

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

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

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 Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA104

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

392 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

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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