GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs GeForce 9800 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1709MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 141W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
+830%
4375
GeForce 9800 GTX
470
Graphics Card
Jul 2016
Release Date
Jan 2009
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1709 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
1100 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
70.40GB/s
Render Config
10
SM Count
16
1280
Shading Units
128
80
TMUs
64
48
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
1536 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
82.03 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.81 GPixel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
47.23 GTexel/s
68.36 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.375 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
470.0 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
120W
TDP
141W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
G92B
GP106-400-A1
GPU Variant
G92-420-B1
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
55 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
260 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
