NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1709MHz vs 1620MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +70%

7.465 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2070 +126%

8869

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3908

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070 +131%

37

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070 +70%

68

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

40

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070 +96%

98

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070 +80%

54

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

30

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070 +77%

96

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

54

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070 +75%

128

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

GeForce RTX 2070

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GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Dec 2017

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

160bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1280

144

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

40

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GP106

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

Turing

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

16 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 8-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

7.5

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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