GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
G84
GP106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1709 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
1506 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
4,375 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
136.7
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
6 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
9028 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
216.7 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
1.1
6.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131