GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs GeForce GTX 660
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1708MHz vs 1032MHz)
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)
192 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 140W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+98%
3935
GeForce GTX 660
1981
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+223%
3863
GeForce GTX 660
1194
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+581%
1771
GeForce GTX 660
260
Blender
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+69%
188
GeForce GTX 660
111
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+181%
76
GeForce GTX 660
27
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Sep 2012
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
980 MHz
1708 MHz
Boost Clock
1032 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
144.2GB/s
Render Config
9
SM Count
-
1152
Shading Units
960
72
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
24
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
81.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
20.64 GPixel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
82.56 GTexel/s
61.49 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.935 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.981 TFLOPS
123.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
82.56 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
140W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
GK106
GP106-300-A1
GPU Variant
GK106-400-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
2.54 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
221 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
6.1
CUDA
3.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
