NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 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 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.7GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)

944 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps +318%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

1.046 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

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

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2257 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

216.7GB/s

Bandwidth

96.19GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

7

1280

Shading Units

336

80

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

24

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

136.7 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

GP106-410-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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