NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GP106 GK110
GPU variant GP106-400-A1 GK110-300-A1
Architecture Pascal Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 16 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 4,400 million 7,080 million
Die size 200 mm² 561 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jul 19th, 2016 May 23rd, 2013
Generation GeForce 10 GeForce 700
Predecessor GeForce 900 GeForce 600
Successor GeForce 20 GeForce 900
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 299 USD 649 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 117 in our database 155 in our database

Clocks

Base clock 1506 MHz 863 MHz
Boost clock 1709 MHz 902 MHz
Memory clock 2002 MHz 8 Gbps effective 1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 6 GB 3 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 192 bit 384 bit
Bandwidth 192.2 GB/s 288.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1280 2304
TMUs 80 192
ROPs 48 48
SM count 10
Cache L1 48 KB (per SM) 16 KB (per SMX)
Cache L2 1536 KB 1536 KB
SMX count 12

Performance

Pixel rate 82.03 GPixel/s 43.30 GPixel/s
Texture rate 136.7 GTexel/s 173.2 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 68.36 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP32 (float) performance 4.375 TFLOPS 4.156 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 136.7 GFLOPS (1:32) 173.2 GFLOPS (1:24)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 250 mm 9.8 inches 267 mm 10.5 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches 111 mm 4.4 inches
TDP 120 W 250 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 600 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort 2x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board number PG410 SKU 30 P2083 SKU 20
Height 38 mm 1.5 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
CUDA 6.1 3.5
Shader model 6.4 5.1

Other Features

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