NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Dec 2017
Aug 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
823 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
888 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1400 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
5GB
1536MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
160bit
192bit
Bandwidth
160.2GB/s
134.4GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
10
-
Shading Units
1280
1152
TMUs
80
96
ROPs
40
24
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
1280 KB
384 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
68.36 GPixel/s
21.31 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
85.25 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
2.046 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
85.25 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GP106
GK104
GPU Variant
GP106-350-K3-A1
GK104-200-KD-A2
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
120W
130W
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
6.4
5.1

📊 Benchmark

Blender
332
-
3DMark Time Spy
-
1,194
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
260