GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB and GeForce GTX 1660 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
GeForce GTX 1660
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
GP106
Turing TU116
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2017
March 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1480 MHz
1785 MHz
Core clock speed
1265 MHz
1530 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
6,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
80 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
157.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
192.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
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DirectX
12.0
12 (12_1)
CUDA
6.1
7.5
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2.131