The GTX 1080 might be the high-end flagship of the latest Pascal set of graphics cards, but their prices keep them out of the reach of most mid-range PC gamers. On the other hand, the GTX 1070 is closer to being reasonably affordable at a price tag of $ 399. The good news is, with the release of the GTX 1070 Ti, the GTX 1070 's price is getting more discount.
NVIDIA ’s xx70 cards have always been defined by mid-range prices with performance that knocks on the door of high-end graphics cards – especially when overclocked. After taking the time to fully test the Pascal graphics card inside the GTX 1070, we can say without a doubt that it continues the trend. The GTX 1070 has 8 GB RAM compared to the GTX 970 's 4 GB video memory.
In our synthetic benchmarks, the GTX 1070 blows past the GTX 970 and, amazingly, even the GTX 980 as well. Unfortunately, gaming performance was not quite as impressive. Even if the GTX 1070 consistently delivers frame rate increases over the GTX 970, the gain is not much to justify an upgrade.
For 1080p Full HD, we were able to play Anthem, Need For Speed: Heat, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Just Cause 4, Gears of War 5 at 64 fps to 75 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 71 fps. For 1440p Quad HD, we were able to play GreedFall, Hitman 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, F1 2019, World War Z at 61 fps to 68 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 65 fps.
The RTX 2070 might be the mid-range flagship of the latest Turing set of graphics cards, but their prices keep them out of the reach of most entry-level PC gamers. On the other hand, the RTX 2060 is closer to being reasonably affordable at a price tag of $ 350. The good news is, with the release of the RTX 2060 SUPER, the RTX 2060 's price is getting more discount.
NVIDIA ’s xx60 cards have always been defined by entry-level prices with performance that knocks on the door of mid-range graphics cards – especially when overclocked. After taking the time to fully test the Turing graphics card inside the RTX 2060, we can say without a doubt that it continues the trend. The RTX 2060 is much more expensive than the GTX 1060 6GB as it costs a whopping $ 350. Compare this to the GTX 1060 6GB, which came originally at a price of $ 254. Meanwhile, the AMD closest equivalent card is the RX 5700 which costs $ 349.
Spec for spec, this RTX 2060 leapfrogs its direct predecessor, the GTX 1060 6GB, by boasting 2 % more fps. In our synthetic benchmarks, the RTX 2060 blows past the GTX 1060 6GB and, amazingly, even the GTX 1070 as well.
Fortunately, gaming performance was quite impressive. The RTX 2060 consistently delivers great frame rate increases over the GTX 1060 6GB and it really justifies an upgrade. For 1080p Full HD, we were able to play Borderlands 3, Anthem, Need For Speed: Heat, Gears of War 5, Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 66 fps to 86 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 76 fps.
For 1440p Quad HD, we were able to play Gears of War 5, Need For Speed: Heat, Final Fantasy XV, Just Cause 4, Monster Hunter: World at 60 fps to 63 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 61 fps.
GTX 1070 | RTX 2060 | |
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Length | 10.5 inches 267 mm | 9 inches 229 mm |
Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort | 1x DVI1x HDMI2x DisplayPort1x USB Type-C |
Power Connectors | 1x 8-pin | 1x 8-pin |
Slot Width | Dual-slot | Dual-slot |
TDP | 150 W | 160 W |
GTX 1070 | RTX 2060 | |
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Boost Clock | 1683 MHz | 1680 MHz |
GPU Clock | 1506 MHz | 1365 MHz |
Memory Clock | 2002 MHz 8008 MHz effective | 1750 MHz 14000 MHz effective |
GTX 1070 | RTX 2060 | |
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Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
Generation | GeForce 1000 | GeForce 2000 |
Production | Active | Released |
Release Date | Jun 10th, 2016 | Jan 7, 2019 |
GTX 1070 | RTX 2060 | |
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CUDA | 6.1 | 7.5 |
DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 12.0 (12_1) |
OpenCL | 1.2 | 1.2 |
OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
Shader Model | 6.1 | 6.3 |
Vulkan | 1.1.82 | 1.1.96 |
GTX 1070 | RTX 2060 | |
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Architecture | Pascal | Turing |
Die Size | 314 mm² | 445 mm2 |
GPU Name | GP104 | TU106 |
Process Size | 16 nm | 12 nm |
Transistors | 7,200 million | 10,800 million |
GTX 1070 | RTX 2060 | |
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Bandwidth | 256.3 GB/s | 336.0 GB/s |
Memory Bus | 256 bit | 192 bit |
Memory Size | 8192 MB | 6144 MB |
Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
GTX 1070 | RTX 2060 | |
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ROPs | 64 | 48 |
SM Count | 15 | 30 |
Shading Units | 1920 | 1920 |
TMUs | 120 | 120 |
GTX 1070 | RTX 2060 | |
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FP16 (half) performance | 101.0 GFLOPS (1:64) | 12,902 GFLOPS (2:1) |
FP32 (float) performance | 6,463 GFLOPS | 6,451 GFLOPS |
FP64 (double) performance | 202.0 GFLOPS (1:32) | 201.6 GFLOPS (1:32) |
Pixel Rate | 107.7 GPixel/s | 80.64 GPixel/s |
Texture Rate | 202.0 GTexel/s | 201.6 GTexel/s |
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