NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2017
Nov 2010
Generation
GeForce 10
GeForce 500
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
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Boost Clock
1709 MHz
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Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
5GB
1536MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
160bit
384bit
Bandwidth
160.2GB/s
192.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
16
Shading Units
1280
512
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
40
48
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1280 KB
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
68.36 GPixel/s
24.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
49.41 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
1.581 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
197.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
GF110
GPU Variant
GP106-350-K3-A1
GF110-375-A1
Architecture
Pascal
Fermi 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
40 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
3 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
520 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
244W
Suggested PSU
300 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
6.1
2.0
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Benchmark
Blender
332
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.