GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 1060

GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 15 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    107%
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

Around 7% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1060

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

The GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070 MobileGeForce GTX 1060
GPU NameGP104 ()vsGP106 (GP106-400-A1)
Fab Process16 nmvs16 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs200 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs4,400 million
Shaders2048vs1280
Compute Units16vs10
Core clock1442 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs64vs48
TMUs128vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070 MobileGeForce GTX 1060
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1070 MobileGeForce GTX 1060
TDP120 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date15 Aug 2016vs10 Jul 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    92.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    184.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    256.30 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    5906.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    18650
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    17380

Points (higher is better)