NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

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

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

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

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +77%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Oct 2018

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

1001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GP104

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

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 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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