GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and GeForce GTX 470 X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
GeForce GTX 470 X2
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GP106
GF100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2017
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1709 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
608 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
3,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
352
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
215 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
26.75
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
5 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
160 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
3.3 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
160.2 GB/s
107.1 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
3x DVI
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
6.1
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A