NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GP104 GK104
GPU variant GP104-150-KA-A1 GK104-200-KD-A2
Architecture Pascal Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 16 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 7,200 million 3,540 million
Die size 314 mm² 294 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 18th, 2018 Aug 22nd, 2012
Generation GeForce 10 GeForce 600
Predecessor GeForce 900 GeForce 500
Successor GeForce 20 GeForce 700
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 117 in our database 77 in our database

Clocks

Base clock 1506 MHz 823 MHz
Boost clock 1709 MHz 888 MHz
Memory clock 1001 MHz 8 Gbps effective 1400 MHz 5.6 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 6 GB 1536 MB
Memory type GDDR5X GDDR5
Memory bus width 192 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 192.2 GB/s 134.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1280 1152
TMUs 80 96
ROPs 48 24
SM count 10
Cache L1 48 KB (per SM) 16 KB (per SMX)
Cache L2 1536 KB 384 KB
SMX count 6

Performance

Pixel rate 82.03 GPixel/s 21.31 GPixel/s
Texture rate 136.7 GTexel/s 85.25 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 68.36 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP32 (float) performance 4.375 TFLOPS 2.046 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 136.7 GFLOPS (1:32) 85.25 GFLOPS (1:24)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 250 mm 9.8 inches 241 mm 9.5 inches
TDP 120 W 130 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 300 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort 2x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Board number P2004

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 3.0
Shader model 6.4 5.1

Other Features

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