GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and Switch GPU - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
Switch GPU
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
GP106
GM20B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
768 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
20 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
2,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
256
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
12.29
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
25.6 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
5.3
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
+
-