NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2475MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 +566%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

4.372 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Mar 2024

Release Date

Mar 2018

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

1280

184

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

48

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

36 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.6 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.32 GFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.372 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GP104

AD103-175-K1-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

16 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

200W

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 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

8.9

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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