NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 216.7GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

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

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +47%

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Apr 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

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2257 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

216.7GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

1920

Shading Units

1280

120

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 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

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GP106

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-410-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

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 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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