NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GP106 GP104
GPU variant GP106-300-A1 N17E-G2-A1
Architecture Pascal Pascal
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 16 nm 16 nm
Number of transistors 4,400 million 7,200 million
Die size 200 mm² 314 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Aug 18th, 2016 —
Generation GeForce 10 —
Predecessor GeForce 900 —
Successor GeForce 20 —
Production End-of-life —
Launch price 199 USD —
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 —
Reviews 117 in our database —

Clocks

Base clock 1506 MHz 1215 MHz
Boost clock 1708 MHz 1379 MHz
Memory clock 2002 MHz 8 Gbps effective 2002 MHz 8 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 3 GB 8 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 192.2 GB/s 256.3 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1152 2048
TMUs 72 128
ROPs 48 64
SM count 9 16
Cache L1 48 KB (per SM) 48 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 1536 KB 2 MB

Performance

Pixel rate 81.98 GPixel/s 88.26 GPixel/s
Texture rate 123.0 GTexel/s 176.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 61.49 GFLOPS (1:64) 88.26 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP32 (float) performance 3.935 TFLOPS 5.648 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 123.0 GFLOPS (1:32) 176.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot MXM Module
Length 250 mm 9.8 inches —
TDP 120 W 115 W
Suggested PSU 300 W —
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Board number PG410 SKU 20 E2914 SKU 10

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
CUDA 6.1 6.1
Shader model 6.4 6.4

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date — Jun 27th, 2017
Generation — GeForce 10 Mobile
Production — End-of-life
Interface — PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews — 125 in our database
Predecessor — GeForce 900M
Successor — GeForce 20 Mobile

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