NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 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 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1064 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +716%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Nov 2008

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

448bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

27

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

216

80

TMUs

72

48

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GT200B

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

171W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 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

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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