GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GP106
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
1695 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
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Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
18,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
6144
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
325.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
-
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
VR Ready
+
-