NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1709MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +139%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +80%

9

GeForce GTX 950

5

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +70%

34

GeForce GTX 950

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +70%

51

GeForce GTX 950

30

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

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Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

90W

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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GM206

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

314 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

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