GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and GeForce GTX 960 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 960
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
8405
GeForce GTX 960
6254
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
GeForce GTX 960
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
N17E-G1
GM206
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
January 2015
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
-
400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pins
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
1178 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1127 MHz
CUDA cores
1280
1024
Floating-point performance
4,275 gflops
2,413 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)
80 Watt
120 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
133.6
72 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
192 GB/s
112 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.43, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
+
4 displays
HDMI
-
+
HDCP
2.2
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
+
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
+
Ansel
+
-
GameStream
+
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
3.0
2.0
VR Ready
+
-