NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1789 points

4988 points

178% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

125 FPS

88 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

63 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS

86 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

48 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

347.28 points

3130.63 points

801% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

28312 points

141168 points

398% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29934 points

119528 points

299% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32085 points

82032 points

155% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points

106421 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points

100291 points

240% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

61% significantly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

1410 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

80 W

43% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s

112.8 Gigapixels/s

58% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s

248.2 Gigatexels/s

109% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.79 TFLOPS

15.88 TFLOPS

319% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

5632

339% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

120% 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

222nd of 586

101st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 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 GTX 1060 Max-Q 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 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop at 115 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 Ti Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q.