NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1709MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (5GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +77%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Dec 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

160bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

40

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

120W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GP106

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

200 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

5.2

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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