NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 65% higher core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1404 MHz
Around 56% higher boost clock speed: 2610 MHz vs 1670 MHz
3594.3x more texture fill rate: 480.2 GTexel/s vs 133.6 GTexel / s
4.6x more pipelines: 5888 vs 1280
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 16 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 6 GB

Launch date	2023 vs 15 August 2016
Core clock speed	2310 MHz vs 1404 MHz
Boost clock speed	2610 MHz vs 1670 MHz
Texture fill rate	480.2 GTexel/s vs 133.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	5888 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 16 nm
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 6 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

3.6x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 285 Watt
6.1x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 285 Watt
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

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

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	1166
PassMark - G3D Mark	26959
Geekbench - OpenCL	168049
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3854
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	417.133
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	55.476
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	245.639
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2459.317
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		12021
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		12021
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		5569
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		5569
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		5034
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		5034

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Pascal
Code name	AD104	GP106
Launch date	2023	15 August 2016
Place in performance rating	35	278
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2610 MHz	1670 MHz
Core clock speed	2310 MHz	1404 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	480.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	30.74 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	30.74 TFLOPS
Pipelines	5888	1280
Pixel fill rate	167.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	480.2 GTexel/s	133.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	285 Watt	80 Watt
Transistor count	35800 million	4,400 million
Floating-point performance		4,275 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Height	61 mm, 2.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	336 mm, 13.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin
Width	140 mm, 5.5 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	504.2 GB/s	192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective	8008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6X	GDDR5
Technologies
CUDA