NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 52.48GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 135W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +845%

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

0.416 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Dec 2007

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

820 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

52.48GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1152

Shading Units

128

72

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.60 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

416.0 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

G92

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

G92-400-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

135W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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