NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1480MHz vs 1290MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q +248%

13.21 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

1063 MHz

1290 MHz

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

40

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

1280

160

TMUs

80

ROPs

48

160

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

206.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

13.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

206.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GP106

GA104-770-A1

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-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

Board Design

80W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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