NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 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 1 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1708MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960
2.413 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+63%
3.935 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 960
2300
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+67%
3863
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 960
1025
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+72%
1771
Blender
GeForce GTX 960
189
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
188
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 960
46
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+65%
76
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 960
10
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+50%
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 960
25
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+16%
29
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 960
35
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+25%
44
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
Release Date
Aug 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
1708 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
9
1024
Shading Units
1152
64
TMUs
72
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
81.98 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
123.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
61.49 GFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.935 TFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.0 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
GP106-300-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
