GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and GeForce 6800 GTO - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

GeForce 6800 GTO

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

GP106

NV45

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

August 2016

April 2004

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1708 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

350 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,935 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

4,400 million

222 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1152

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

Texture fill rate

123.0

4.200

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

256 MB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

8008 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

32 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

2x DVI

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

Shader Model

6.4

3.0

Vulkan

N/A