NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 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 5 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1709MHz vs 1708MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

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 GP104

4.372 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

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

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

192bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

40

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.6 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.32 GFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.372 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.6 GFLOPS

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

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 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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