NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 216.7GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +364%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2257 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

216.7GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

10

5888

Shading Units

1280

184

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

48

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GP106

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-410-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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