NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 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 RTX 2060

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 29.99 slightly less expensive

$ 349.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

4831 points

32% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

106 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

66 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

74 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

50 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

68 FPS

102 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

God of War FPS

High settings at 1080p

62 FPS

71 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher God of War FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

7528 points

24% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

1636.29 points

192% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558 points

78091 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

70754 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

60775 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

76744 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

72572 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

1365 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

0.18% slightly higher boost clock speed

1680 MHz

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

336 GB/s

31% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

6% slightly lower TDP

160 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

33% slightly higher pixel rate

80.64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

0.20% slightly higher texture rate

201.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

0.19% slightly better floating point performance

6.45 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

Identical

1920

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

Identical

120

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 590

106th of 590

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2019 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce GTX 1070 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2060 beats the GeForce GTX 1070 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1070 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

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. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2060 at 160 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 RTX 2060 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1070.