NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2017
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
GeForce 600
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1063 MHz
980 MHz
Boost Clock
1480 MHz
1032 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
192bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
144.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
-
Shading Units
1280
960
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
48
24
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
71.04 GPixel/s
20.64 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
82.56 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
59.20 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
1.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
118.4 GFLOPS
82.56 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
GK104
GPU Variant
N17E-G1-A1
-
Architecture
Pascal
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
294 mm²
Board Design
TDP
80W
140W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
-
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
6.1
3.0
Shader Model
6.4
5.1