NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 289.00

$ 964.25 significantly less expensive

$ 1253.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points

231% significantly better overall score

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

42 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

18 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB and the GeForce GTX 670? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

54% significantly higher Blender score

184.30 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31922 points

166% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11969 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13527 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

7421 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points

129% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14780 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14358 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13527 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

6454 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

117% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15314 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16269 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

64% significantly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

74% significantly higher boost clock speed

980 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

0.05% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

41% slightly lower TDP

170 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

198% significantly higher pixel rate

27.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

12% slightly higher texture rate

109.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS

49% significantly better floating point performance

2.63 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

1344

16% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

55% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586

305th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce GTX 670 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 670 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 670 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is better than the GeForce GTX 670.