NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 3 month(s) later
1785.7x more texture fill rate: 244.1 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
3.6x more pipelines: 4608 vs 1280
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 16 nm
Around 4% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 120 Watt
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB

Launch date	2023 vs 5 January 2018
Texture fill rate	244.1 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
Pipelines	4608 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt vs 120 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 6 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1395 MHz
Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1709 MHz vs 1695 MHz
4x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 1395 MHz
Boost clock speed	1709 MHz vs 1695 MHz
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
PassMark - G2D Mark	783
PassMark - G3D Mark	19649
Geekbench - OpenCL	106772
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	12236
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	319.688
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	36.174
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	218.946
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1585.54
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		14345

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Pascal
Code name	AD106	GP106
Launch date	2023	5 January 2018
Place in performance rating	73	72
Launch price (MSRP)		$299
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz	1709 MHz
Core clock speed	1395 MHz	1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	244.1 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	15.62 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	15.62 TFLOPS
Pipelines	4608	1280
Pixel fill rate	81.36 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	244.1 GTexel/s	136.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	120 Watt
Floating-point performance		4,375 gflops
Transistor count		4,400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Length		250 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	256.0 GB/s	192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	8008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5