NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)

816 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +276%

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

1.046 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.19GB/s

Render Config

-

9

SM Count

7

1152

Shading Units

336

72

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

24

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

160W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GF114

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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