GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GTX 950 LP - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
GeForce GTX 950 LP
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
GP106
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
March 2016
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
1188 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1024 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
1,825 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
768
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
57.02
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
6612 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
105.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12.0
CUDA
6.1
5.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
VR Ready
+
-