NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 OEM 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 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 92% (1709MHz vs 888MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +113%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

2.046 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Aug 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

823 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

888 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1152

80

TMUs

96

48

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.31 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

85.25 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.046 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.25 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GK104

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-200-KD-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

130W

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 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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