GeForce GTS 250 and GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 250
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
G92B
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2009
December 2016
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
738 MHz
1506 MHz
CUDA cores
128
-
Floating-point performance
387.1 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
1152
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
120 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
47.2 billion/sec
123.0
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1100 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
70.4 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two 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
3.0
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131