NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP 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 290W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1770MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

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

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP +397%

21.75 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1740 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 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

48

1280

Shading Units

6144

80

TMUs

192

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

290W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA104

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

-

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

6.8

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