NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2017
Mar 2016
Generation
GeForce 10
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1026 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
1190 MHz
Memory Clock
2257 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
216.7GB/s
105.8GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
—
Shading Units
1280
768
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
82.03 GPixel/s
38.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
1.828 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
GM206
GPU Variant
GP106-410-A1
GM206-251-A1
Architecture
Pascal
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
75W
Suggested PSU
300 W
250 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
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
6.1
5.2
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.