GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and GeForce GTX 950 Low Power - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
GP106
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
March 2016
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
1190 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1026 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,935 gflops
1,828 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1152
768
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
123.0
57.12
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
6612 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
105.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
6.1
5.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.1.126