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GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages
Boost Clock1709MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)
944 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460
907
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +382%
4375

Graphics Card

Jul 2010
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1506 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz

Memory

768MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s

Render Config

7
SM Count
10
336
Shading Units
1280
56
TMUs
80
24
ROPs
64
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
384 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB

Theoretical Performance

9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
109.4 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W
TDP
120W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF104
GPU Name
GP104
GF104-300-KB-A1
GPU Variant
GP104-150-KA-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
16 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
2.1
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
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