NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

332

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +36%

452

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +77%

16

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +17%

40

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +2%

51

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +7%

30

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

28

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +3%

54

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +2%

75

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Oct 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

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

160bit

Memory Bus

192bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

10

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

40

ROPs

48

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 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

GP106

GPU Name

GP104

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

16 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

200 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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