NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 141W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 +830%

4.372 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GTX

0.47 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

VS

GeForce 9800 GTX

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

128

80

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

136.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

68.32 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.372 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

136.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

G92B

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

G92-420-B1

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

141W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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