NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2068 points

5980 points

189% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

42 FPS

151 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

75 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

104 FPS

77 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

57 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

3004.43 points

955% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31922 points

122041 points

282% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points

111833 points

229% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points

84673 points

149% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

102733 points

207% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

96388 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

35% slightly higher core clock speed

1110 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

9% slightly higher boost clock speed

1560 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

448 GB/s

133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

115 W

4% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

124.8 Gigapixels/s

52% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

249.6 Gigatexels/s

102% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS

15.97 TFLOPS

305% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

5120

344% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

122% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

66% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

209th of 597

82nd of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.