NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 289.00

$ 31.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

77% significantly better overall score

2058 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

29 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

96% significantly higher Blender score

284.61 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

31922 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

13527 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33958 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33939 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

13527 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33375 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32433 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

Identical

1506 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

1708 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

120 W

25% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

31% slightly higher pixel rate

81.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

64% significantly higher texture rate

123 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

64% significantly better floating point performance

3.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

66% significantly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

206th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2016 August

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

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1070 beats the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in gaming performance.

By comparing the spec sheets, both the GeForce GTX 1070 and the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB have the same base clock speed. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1070 over the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.