EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC ULTRA BLACK GAMING
vs
GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC ULTRA BLACK GAMING and the GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC ULTRA BLACK GAMING is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 and has 1920 texture shaders and 30 execution units.

GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070, which has 1920 shaders and 15 execution units.
EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC ULTRA BLACK GAMING GPU GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
TU106 GPU Chip GP104-200-A1
Turing Architecture Pascal
30 Streaming Multiprocessors 15
1920 Shader 1920
48 Render Output Units 64
120 Texture Units 120
30 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC ULTRA BLACK GAMING has 6 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 336 GB/s.

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

6 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.002 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
336 GB/s Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC ULTRA BLACK GAMING clocks in the base with up to 1.365 GHz. The base frequency of the GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA is 1.518 GHz.

1.365 GHz Base Clock 1.518 GHz
1.680 GHz Boost Clock 1.708 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC ULTRA BLACK GAMING is 160 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

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

160 W TDP 150 W
-- TDP (up) --
88 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC ULTRA BLACK GAMING has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA 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
0 dB Noise (Idle) 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 EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC ULTRA BLACK GAMING.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC ULTRA BLACK GAMING supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes 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
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC ULTRA BLACK GAMING is 268 mm long, 111 mm high and -- wide.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA is 253 mm long, 111 mm high and 16 mm wide.

268 mm Length 253 mm
111 mm Height 111 mm
-- Width 16 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 1 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC ULTRA BLACK GAMING was released in Q1/2019 at a price of 349 $ (Reference).

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

06G-P4-2163-KR Part-no 70NSH6DS2HRZ
Q1/2019 Release date Q2/2016
349 $ (Reference) Launch Price 379 $ (Reference)
12 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)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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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