GeForce 7950 GT and GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 - video card comparison

GeForce 7950 GT

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

G71

GP106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

August 2006

January 2018

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1709 MHz

Core clock speed

550 MHz

1506 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,375 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

278 million

4,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

65 Watt

120 Watt

Texture fill rate

13.20

136.7

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

6 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1400 MHz

8008 MHz

Memory bandwidth

44.8 GB/s

192.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131