NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jul 2016
Sep 2012
Generation
GeForce 10
GeForce 600
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
980 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 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
82.03 GPixel/s
20.64 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
82.56 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
1.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
82.56 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
GK106
GPU Variant
GP106-400-A1
GK106-400-A1
Architecture
Pascal
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
2.54 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
221 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
140W
Suggested PSU
300 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
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
6.8
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
4,203
1,194
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,917
260
Battlefield 5 1080p
74
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
9
—
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
32
—
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
50
—
Battlefield 5 2160p
27
—
Battlefield 5 1440p
50
—
OctaneBench
—
27
Blender
—
111
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.