NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

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

4736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 +640%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

GeForce RTX 4070

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Apr 2023

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1920 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

1152

Shading Units

5888

72

TMUs

184

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

36 MB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

AD104

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-250-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

5 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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