NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 289.00

$ 252.95 significantly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points

12174 points

491% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

42 FPS

289 FPS

247 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

141 FPS

108 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

206 FPS

180 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

114 FPS

85 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

5402.96 points

1798% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

168368 points

404% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

158623 points

389% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

2190 MHz

45% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

2430 MHz

42% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

20% slightly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

360 GB/s

87% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

150% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

137% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

342% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

785% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

7168

522% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

211% 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

206th of 586

31st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2023 April

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 4070 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4070 beats the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 has a significantly 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 RTX 4070 also has a slightly 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 significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 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 4070 is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.