NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 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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$ 639.00

$ 399.00

$ 240.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8845 points

259% significantly better overall score

2457 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

210 FPS

163 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

151 FPS

120 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

33 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3754.04 points

893% significantly higher Blender score

377.89 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

165866 points

387% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

34034 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

147200 points

304% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

36416 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

104828 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

37241 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

138062 points

278% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

36494 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

131952 points

269% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

35697 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1575 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

1506 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

1709 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

608.3 GB/s

216% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

290 W

120 W

141% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigapixels/s

107% significantly higher pixel rate

82.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

339.8 Gigatexels/s

148% significantly higher texture rate

136.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

21.75 TFLOPS

438% significantly better floating point performance

4.04 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

6144

380% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

139% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

45th of 586

180th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2016 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs GeForce GTX 1060 6GB specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti at 290 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 3070 Ti over the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.