GeForce GT 620M and GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 620M
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
N13P-GLP / N13M-GS
GP104
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
December 2016
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
715 MHz
1708 MHz
Core clock speed
Up to 625 MHz
1506 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
253.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
1152
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
Up to 10.0 billion/sec
123.0
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
Up to 128bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
Up to 28.8 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
Up to 2048x1536
-
DirectX
12 API
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
Optimus
+
-