GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and Sandy Bridge GT1 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

Sandy Bridge GT1

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Generation 6.0 (2011)

GPU code name

GP106

Sandy Bridge GT1

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1709 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,375 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

32 nm

Number of transistors

4,400 million

504 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

Texture fill rate

136.7

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

9028 MHz

Memory bandwidth

216.7 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.1

Shader Model

6.4

4.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A