NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 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

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

944 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +318%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

1.046 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

7

1280

Shading Units

336

80

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

160W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GF114

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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