GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and GeForce RTX 3070 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps
GeForce RTX 3070
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GP106
Ampere GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
September 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1709 MHz
1725 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1500 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
5888
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
220 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
317.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
9028 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
216.7 GB/s
448.0 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
8.5
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2