NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (8GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1709MHz vs 1683MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +47%

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +97%

657

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

332

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

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GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Dec 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

160bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

10

1920

Shading Units

1280

120

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

40

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

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Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GP106

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

16 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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