NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 OEM 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 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1709MHz vs 1203MHz)

More VRAM (5GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +77%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

2.464 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Jan 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

937 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1203 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

40

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.50 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.99 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.464 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.99 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GM206S

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

950 OEM

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

Board Design

120W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

6.7

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