NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1709MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +81%

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2283

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +84%

4207

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960 +11%

10

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

9

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +28%

32

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +42%

50

GeForce GTX 960

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jul 2016

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GP106

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-400-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

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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