NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
4.375 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
4.375 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Oct 2018
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
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
10
SM Count
10
1280
Shading Units
1280
80
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
82.03 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
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 Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GP104
GP104-150-KA-A1
GPU Variant
GP104-150-KA-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
16 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
314 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
6.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
