NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2475MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +566%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Aug 2024

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1920 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

480.0GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

46

1280

Shading Units

5888

80

TMUs

184

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

36 MB

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Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

200W

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 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

AD104

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-2XX-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

5 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

294 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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.8

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