GeForce FX 5600 and GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5600

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

NV31

GP104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2003

October 2018

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1709 MHz

Core clock speed

325 MHz

1506 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

80 million

7,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

37 Watt

120 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.300

136.7

Memory type

DDR

GDDR5X

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

6 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

500 MHz

8008 MHz

Memory bandwidth

8 GB/s

192.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0a

12 (12_1)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131