NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 +11%

4.372 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Mar 2018

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

9

SM Count

10

1152

Shading Units

1280

72

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

48

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

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Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.6 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.32 GFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.372 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GP104

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

16 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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