NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

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

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 79.00 slightly less expensive

$ 399.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

48% significantly better overall score

2457 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

33 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

377.89 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

34034 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

14587 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

36416 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

37241 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

14587 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

36494 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

35697 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

1709 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 GiB

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

82.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

47% significantly higher texture rate

136.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

60% significantly better floating point performance

4.04 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

49% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

49% 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

180th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2016 July

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 6GB benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in gaming.

Our database shows that both the GeForce GTX 1070 and GeForce GTX 1060 6GB both have the same core clock speed. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1070 has slightly more memory with 8 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 6GB 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1070 over the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.