NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

816 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +261%

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Dec 2016

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

7

SM Count

9

336

Shading Units

1152

56

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

48

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.34 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

45.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

90.72 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

GP104

GF114-325-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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