ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB
vs
Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB and the Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and has 1280 texture shaders and 10 execution units.

Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070, which has 1920 shaders and 15 execution units.
ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB GPU Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
GP106-400-A1 GPU Chip GP104-200-A1
Pascal Architecture Pascal
10 Streaming Multiprocessors 15
1280 Shader 1920
48 Render Output Units 64
80 Texture Units 120
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB has 6 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition can access 8 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

6 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
2.002 GHz Memory Clock 2.002 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
192 GB/s Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB clocks in the base with up to 1.569 GHz. The base frequency of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition is 1.506 GHz.

1.569 GHz Base Clock 1.506 GHz
1.809 GHz Boost Clock 1.683 GHz
1.79 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB is 120 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin connector.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition has a TDP of 150 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

120 W TDP 150 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
1 x 6-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 70 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
No VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB is 240 mm long, 131 mm high and 38 mm wide.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition is 267 mm long, 112 mm high and -- wide.

240 mm Length 267 mm
131 mm Height 112 mm
38 mm Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB was released in Q3/2016 at a price of 249 $ (Reference).

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition was introduced in Q2/2016 at a price of 379 $ (Reference).

EX-GTX1060-O6G Part-no 426018336-3637
Q3/2016 Release date Q2/2016
249 $ (Reference) Launch Price 379 $ (Reference)
16 nm Structure size 16 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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