Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jan 2015 | Apr 2017 |
| Generation | GeForce 900 | GeForce 10 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1127 MHz | 1506 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1178 MHz | 1709 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1753 MHz | 2257 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 6GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 128bit | 192bit |
| Bandwidth | 112.2GB/s | 216.7GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 1024 | 1280 |
| TMUs | 64 | 80 |
| ROPs | 32 | 48 |
| L1 Cache | 48 KB (per SMM) | 48 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 1024 KB | 1536 KB |
| SM Count | 10 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 37.70 GPixel/s | 82.03 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 75.39 GTexel/s | 136.7 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.413 TFLOPS | 4.375 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 75.39 GFLOPS | 136.7 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 68.36 GFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GM206 | GP106 |
| GPU Variant | GM206-300-A1 | GP106-410-A1 |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | Pascal |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 16 nm |
| Transistors | 2.94 billion | 4.4 billion |
| Die Size | 228 mm² | 200 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 120W | 120W |
| Suggested PSU | 300 W | 300 W |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | 1x 6-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 (12_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| CUDA | 5.2 | 6.1 |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 6.4 |