NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 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 6 GB

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
• Around 34% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1127 MHz
• Around 45% higher boost clock speed: 1709 MHz vs 1178 MHz
• Around 90% higher texture fill rate: 136.7 GTexel / s vs 72 billion / sec
• Around 25% higher pipelines: 1280 vs 1024
• Around 81% better floating-point performance: 4,375 gflops vs 2,413 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
• 3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2 GB
• 1144x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
• Around 65% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 10079 vs 6111
• Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 747 vs 673
• Around 89% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 35369 vs 18734
• Around 62% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 119.148 vs 73.733
• Around 73% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1373.562 vs 792.44
• Around 78% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 8.694 vs 4.888
• 2.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 454.799 vs 200.825
• Around 72% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 12442 vs 7218
• Around 72% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 12442 vs 7218
• 5.6x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 907 vs 162

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

• Around 62% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 35.338 vs 21.766

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	10079 6111
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	747 673
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	35369 18734
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	119.148 73.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1373.562 792.44
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	8.694 4.888
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	21.766 35.338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	454.799 200.825
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	12442 7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3691 3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3340 3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	12442 7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3691 3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3340 3335
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	907 162

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