NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 51% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 9.5x more texture fill rate: 123.0 GTexel / s vs 13 billion / sec
  • 18x more pipelines: 1152 vs 64
  • 30.7x better floating-point performance: 3,935 gflops vs 128 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 65 nm
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 1 GB
  • 19.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9762 vs 504
  • Around 90% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 772 vs 407
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 August 2016 vs 3 March 2009
Core clock speed 1506 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 123.0 GTexel / s vs 13 billion / sec
Pipelines 1152 vs 64
Floating-point performance 3,935 gflops vs 128 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 9762 vs 504
PassMark - G2D Mark 772 vs 407

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

  • 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 120 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
9762
504
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
772
407
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M
PassMark - G3D Mark 9762 504
PassMark - G2D Mark 772 407
Geekbench - OpenCL 32308
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 115.073
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1325.07
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.057
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 31.946
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 425.709
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10566
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3338
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10566
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3338
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3851

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

Essentials

Architecture Pascal Tesla
Code name GP106 G94
Launch date 18 August 2016 3 March 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $199
Place in performance rating 372 375
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1708 MHz
Core clock speed 1506 MHz 1000 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,935 gflops 128 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 1152 64
Texture fill rate 123.0 GTexel / s 13 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 45 Watt
Transistor count 4,400 million 505 million
CUDA cores 64
Gigaflops 192

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort DisplayPortHDMIDual Link DVILVDSSingle Link DVIVGA
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 250 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size large
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.2 GB / s 51 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
MXM 3.0 Type-B
PCI-E 2.0
Power management 8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
PureVideo HD