GeForce RTX 2070 Super vs GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Jul 2019
GeForce RTX 2070 Super
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Dec 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 2070 Super

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)

55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce RTX 2070 Super .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RTX 2070 Super

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 2070 Super

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 2070 SuperGeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)
GPU NameTU104 (TU104-410-A1)vsGP104 (GP104-140-A1)
Fab Process12 nmvs16 nm
Die Size545 mm²vs314 mm²
Transistors13,600 millionvs7,200 million
Shaders2560vs1152
Compute Units40vs9
Core clock1605 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs64vs48
TMUs160vs72

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 2070 SuperGeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 2070 SuperGeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)
TDP175 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date9 Jul 2019vs25 Dec 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2070 Super
    113.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2070 Super
    283.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)
    108.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 2070 Super
    448.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 2070 Super
    9060.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)
    3470.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better