NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 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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$ 659.00

$ 289.00

$ 370.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4840 points

135% significantly better overall score

2058 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

104 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

71 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

71 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

53 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

29 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2206.17 points

675% significantly higher Blender score

284.61 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

96024 points

200% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

31922 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

85818 points

152% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33958 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

73515 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33939 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90905 points

172% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33375 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

84097 points

159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32433 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

1506 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1620 MHz

1708 MHz

5% 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

448 GB/s

133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

120 W

45% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.7 Gigapixels/s

26% slightly higher pixel rate

81.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

233.3 Gigatexels/s

89% significantly higher texture rate

123 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.46 TFLOPS

89% significantly better floating point performance

3.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

100% significantly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

100% 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

105th of 586

206th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2070 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 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 1060 3GB also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2070 at 175 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2070 over the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.