NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +817%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

448bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

192

80

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GT200

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

65 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

182W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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