NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB, 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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$ 399.00

$ 142.95 significantly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2457 points

12174 points

395% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

48 FPS

289 FPS

241 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

141 FPS

101 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

206 FPS

175 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

114 FPS

81 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points

5402.96 points

1329% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

168368 points

361% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

158623 points

344% 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

1709 MHz

2430 MHz

42% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

82.03 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

136% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

298% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.04 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

763% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

7168

459% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

180% 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

182nd of 597

31st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

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 6GB vs GeForce RTX 4070 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 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 RTX 4070 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 4070 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4070 over the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.