NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (2520MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5070 +637%

32.26 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Jul 2016

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

532.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

50

SM Count

10

6400

Shading Units

1280

200

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

48

200

Tensor Cores

-

50

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

40 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

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Theoretical Performance

161.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

504.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

32.26 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

32.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

504.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB205

GPU Name

GP106

GB205

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

16 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.4 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

6.1

6.8

Shader Model

6.4

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