GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GT 555M 3 GB - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

GeForce GT 555M 3 GB

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

GP106

GF106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

July 2016

March 2011

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1708 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

590 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,375 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

4,400 million

1,170 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

144

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

136.7

14.16

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

1800 MBps

Memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

43.2 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

6.1

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

VR Ready