NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1708MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +115%

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1152

Shading Units

768

72

TMUs

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GM206

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

90W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 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 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

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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