GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GP106

GN20-E5 GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

April 2017

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1709 MHz

1290 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,375 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

4,400 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

5120

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

136.7

237.4

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

9028 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

216.7 GB/s

320.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2