GeForce RTX 2060 vs GTX 1070 Ti

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB with 30 pipelines and 1920 shaders against the 1 year and 3 months older GTX 1070 Ti 8 GB that utilizes 19 pipelines and 2432 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
6 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR5
33.6
(Mediocre)
Value Index
21.1
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1070 Ti over RTX 2060
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2060
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 12 nm process technology
  • Shows 11% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 50 vs 45 FPS
  • Ray-tracing support with 30 dedicated RT cores
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Achieves 37% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (78K vs 57K)
  • Has 31% higher memory bandwidth: 336 vs 256.3 GB/s
  • Features 240 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
  • 26% higher maximum theoretical performance (8.2 vs 6.5 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Has 27% more shading units (2432 vs 1920)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
99
62
49
35
97
56
45
29
The Witcher 3
107
86
62
34
95
77
53
27
Counter-Strike 2
157
117
82
41
149
104
78
37
Far Cry 6
84
74
57
29
78
70
52
25
Hogwarts Legacy
59
47
33
15
54
42
31
16
CoD: Modern Warfare III
69
59
44
30
63
52
37
23
Ghost of Tsushima
53
42
30
18
49
37
26
13
Cyberpunk 2077
58
52
32
13
51
48
26
12
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
92
85
58
33
87
77
53
28
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 86 80
1080p Ultra 69 63
1440p Ultra 50 45
4K Ultra 28 23
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RTX 2060 +11%
7385
Time Spy 7564 6842
Solar Bay 34157 18306
Port Royal 4133 1554
Fire Strike 19777 20113
Wild Life Extreme 15551 13255
Night Raid 85132 78888
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RTX 2060 +37%
78934
57735
Background Blur 144.4 img/sec 149.2 img/sec
Face Detection 75.2 img/sec 67.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.08 Gpixels/sec 2.36 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.25 Gpixels/sec 3.57 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.21 Gpixels/sec 4.32 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.93 Gpixels/sec 0.27 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 354.4 Gpixels/sec 209.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8559.4 FPS 6584.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RTX 2060 +29%
4901

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
14078
14668
G2D Mark 743 876
DirectX 11 112 FPS 106 FPS
DirectX 12 53 FPS 52 FPS
GPU Compute 5427 Ops/s 7166 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 33708 & 13017 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 2060 +160%
1626.82
626.69
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2415 & 393 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 2060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-15 (MrRayeen)Geekbench 6 OpenCL82889
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
No benchmark results yet

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RTX 2060 +39%
12466
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 2060 +148%
21712
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 2060 +34%
8757
Image Classification (SP) 5453 3473
Image Segmentation (HP) 12449 5149
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11020 9722
Face Detection (HP) 24511 9306
Pose Estimation (Q) 47746 34870
Text Classification (SP) 2000 2139
Machine Translation (HP) 3360 2424
Object Detection (SP) 6343 4566
Depth Estimation (Q) 20909 14316
Style Transfer (SP) 101870 88984
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 2060 and GTX 1070 Ti

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 15, 2019 November 2, 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $349 -
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Turing Pascal
GPU Codename TU106 GP104
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 5600 XT - Radeon RX 5600 XT
Successor - GeForce RTX 5060 -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 9600K or above - Intel Core i7 7700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (69th and 74th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1365 MHz 1607 MHz
Boost Clock 1680 MHz 1683 MHz
Shading Units 1920 2432
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 120 152
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 30 19
Tensor Cores 240 No
Ray-tracing Cores 30 No
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 3MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 81 GPixel/s 108 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 202 GTexel/s 256 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
6.5 TFLOPS
8.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 160 W 180 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 12 nm 16 nm
Die Size 445 mm² 314 mm²
Transistor Count 10 billion 7 billion
Transistor Density 22.47 MTr/mm² 22.29 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Size 6 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2002 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 8000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 2060 +31%
336 GB/s
256.3 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 7.5 6.1
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS DLSS 2 No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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suotome November 3, 2024 at 08:45 AM
RTX 2060 = GTX 1070 Ti
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