NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.7GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

944 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps +301%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Apr 2017

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

1709 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2257 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

216.7GB/s

Render Config

-

7

SM Count

10

336

Shading Units

1280

56

TMUs

80

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

82.03 GPixel/s

45.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

90.72 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 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

GP106

GF114-325-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-410-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

200 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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