NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 335.00

$ 206.95 significantly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

12174 points

486% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

289 FPS

245 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

141 FPS

107 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

28 FPS

206 FPS

178 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

114 FPS

87 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

3862 points

6% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

5402.96 points

1356% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

168368 points

420% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

158623 points

413% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

2190 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

150% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

208th of 597

31st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 4070 benchmarks

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

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, 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 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.