GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
G94
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
December 2016
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1708 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
1506 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
1152
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
120 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
123.0
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131