NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 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 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1709MHz vs 1032MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +120%

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 660

1308

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +221%

4207

GeForce GTX 660

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2012

Release Date

Jul 2016

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

10

960

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

24

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

GP106

GK106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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