GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs GeForce GTX 570

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
GeForce GTX 570
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Dec 2010
GeForce GTX 570

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    279%
  • GeForce GTX 570
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

99 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 570 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 179% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 570

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

The GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBGeForce GTX 570
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-300-A1)vsGF110 (GF110-275-A1)
Fab Process16 nmvs40 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs520 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs3,000 million
Shaders1152vs480
Compute Units9vs15
Core clock1506 MHzvs732 MHz
ROPs48vs40
TMUs72vs60

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBGeForce GTX 570
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs320 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs950 MHz
3800 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs1280 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBGeForce GTX 570
TDP120 wattsvs219 watts
Release Date18 Aug 2016vs7 Dec 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    72.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    22.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    108.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    43.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    152.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    3470.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 570
    1405.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    16380
  • GeForce GTX 570
    5860

Points (higher is better)