GeForce GTS 160M and GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 160M
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
N10E-GS1
GP104
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2009
March 2018
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
SLI options
2-way
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Boost clock speed
-
1708 MHz
Core clock speed
600 MHz
1506 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
-
Gigaflops
288
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
19 billion/sec
136.6
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 800 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
VGADisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMILVDSSingle Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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
Power management
8.0
-