GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 290W)
GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1770MHz vs 1708MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
4992 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
3935
GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP
+452%
21750
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
1740 MHz
1708 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
9
SM Count
48
1152
Shading Units
6144
72
TMUs
192
48
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
81.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
169.9 GPixel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
339.8 GTexel/s
61.49 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
21.75 TFLOPS
3.935 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
21.75 TFLOPS
123.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
339.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
290W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
GA104
GP106-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
16 nm
Process Size
8 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
