NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 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

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1709MHz vs 1032MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +120%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660

1.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +221%

4207

GeForce GTX 660

1308

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 660

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Sep 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

960

80

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

24

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

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Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.64 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.56 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.981 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

140W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GK106

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GK106-400-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

6.1

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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