GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GTX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs GeForce GTX 590
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
10560
GeForce GTX 590
3441
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
GeForce GTX 590
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GP106
GF110
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
March 2011
Bus support
-
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
Two 8-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
607 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1024
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
2x 1,244.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
365 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
97 °C
Texture fill rate
136.7
77.7 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
Memory bus width
192 Bit
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
1707 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
327.7 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
6.1
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.2
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
VR Ready
+
-