NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +7%

4204

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3909

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

9

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +77%

16

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

32

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +25%

40

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

50

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

27

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +11%

30

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

50

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +8%

54

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +1%

74

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

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GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Dec 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

160bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GP106

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

16 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 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

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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