GeForce GTX 1070 and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1070
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
GP106
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
May 2016
June 2017
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1683 MHz
1480 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1265 MHz
CUDA cores
1920
-
Floating-point performance
6,463 gflops
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
80 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
202.0
118.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
-
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12.0
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
+
-
Ansel
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-