NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 320.00

$ 15.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

3644 points

75% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

72 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

59 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

46 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

48 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

6047 points

66% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

558.86 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

45558 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

18801 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

47750 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

53125 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

18801 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

50172 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

49876 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

1506 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

25% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

134th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 1070 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1060 has a slightly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1070 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1070 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060.