NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 335.00

$ 918.25 significantly less expensive

$ 1253.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

234% significantly better overall score

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

18 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

97% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1841 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

101% significantly higher Blender score

184.30 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11969 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

7421 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14780 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14358 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

6454 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15314 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16269 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

86% significantly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

41% slightly lower TDP

170 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

306th of 586

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 670 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 670 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1060 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 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 670 at 170 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 is faster than the GeForce GTX 670.