GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1725MHz vs 1709MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)
4608 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 220W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3070
+364%
20310
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
4375
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Unknown
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
1001 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
10
5888
Shading Units
1280
184
TMUs
80
96
ROPs
64
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
165.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
109.4 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
GP104
GA104-300-A1
GPU Variant
GP104-150-KA-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Pascal
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
16 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
314 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
