NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 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

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1709MHz vs 1190MHz)

More VRAM (5GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +139%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +85%

332

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

179

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Mar 2016

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1026 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

40

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

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

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GM206

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-251-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

228 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

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD FirePro W600

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 5570

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs ATI FirePro V5800

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

Related News

1

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

2

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

3

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

4

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

5

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

6

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

7

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

8

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

9

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early

10

Linux Creator Criticizes AMD and Intel's x86 Microarchitecture: A Complete Disaster