GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
GP106
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
November 2015
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
1201 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
924 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
136.7
76.86
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
7012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
6.1
5.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
VR Ready
+
-