GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

GP106

NV31

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

July 2016

March 2003

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCI

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1708 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

235 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,375 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

4,400 million

80 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

Texture fill rate

136.7

0.94

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

64 MB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

6.4 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x DVI

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

9.0a

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.5 (2.1)

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

VR Ready