MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION
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MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION has 1920 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.68 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 6.46 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G has 1920 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.68 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 6.45 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 15 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 30 execution units.
MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION GPU MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
GP104-200-A1 GPU Chip TU106
Pascal Architecture Turing
15 Streaming Multiprocessors 30
1920 Shader 1920
64 Render Output Units 48
120 Texture Units 120
0 Raytracing Cores 30

Memory

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G has a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

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

Clock Speeds

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION has a turbo clock of 1.683 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G is 1.680 GHz.

1.506 GHz Base Clock 1.365 GHz
1.683 GHz Boost Clock 1.680 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 94 °C.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 88 °C.

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

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G is cooled by a Air cooling.

Radial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 70 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

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

Dimensions

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

268 mm Length 247 mm
111 mm Height 129 mm
38 mm Width 52 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
1096 g Weight 957 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION was released in Q2/2016.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G published in Q1/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q2/2016 Release date Q1/2019
379 $ (Reference) Launch Price 349 $ (Reference)
16 nm Structure size 12 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)

MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G
6 GB GDDR6
25 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G
6 GB GDDR6
31 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G
6 GB GDDR6
46 fps (avg)

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)

MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION
8 GB GDDR5
92 fps (avg)
MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING 6G
6 GB GDDR6
118 fps (avg)

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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