GeForce RTX 3070 and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3070

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Ampere GA104

GP106

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

September 2020

June 2017

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1725 MHz

1480 MHz

Core clock speed

1500 MHz

1265 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,789 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

17,400 million

4,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

5888

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

220 Watt

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

317.4

118.4

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

8008 MHz

Memory bandwidth

448.0 GB/s

192.2 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12.0

CUDA

8.5

6.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.5

Shader Model

6.5

5.0

Vulkan

1.2