The ASUS GeForce GTX 950 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 6 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 9 execution units.
Memory
Memory
ASUS GeForce GTX 950
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Memory Size
2 GB
3 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Clock
1.653 GHz
2.002 GHz
Memory Speed
6.6 Gbps
8.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
106 GB/s
192 GB/s
Memory Interface
128 bit
192 bit
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The ASUS GeForce GTX 950 is equipped with a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.653 GHz clocks.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a 3 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
ASUS GeForce GTX 950
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Base Clock
1.051 GHz
1.506 GHz
Boost Clock
1.228 GHz
1.708 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The ASUS GeForce GTX 950 has a turbo clock of 1.228 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is 1.708 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
ASUS GeForce GTX 950
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
TDP
90 W
120 W
Tjunction max
95 °C
94 °C
PCIe-Power
--
1 x 6-Pin
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The ASUS GeForce GTX 950 has -- connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 95 °C.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
ASUS GeForce GTX 950
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Fan-Type
Axial
Radial
Fan 1
2 x 75 mm
1 x 65 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB
--
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS GeForce GTX 950 are cooled with a Air cooling.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
ASUS GeForce GTX 950
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.2
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort
1x DP 1.2
3x DP 1.4
DVI
1
1
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The ASUS GeForce GTX 950 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
ASUS GeForce GTX 950
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Max. resolution
4096x2160
7680x4320
DirectX
12_1
12_1
Raytracing
No
No
DLSS / FSR
No
Yes
LED
No LED lighting
No LED lighting
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The ASUS GeForce GTX 950 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
ASUS GeForce GTX 950
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
No
Decode / Encode
VP8
Decode
No
VP9
No
Decode
AV1
No
No
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This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.
Dimensions
Dimensions
ASUS GeForce GTX 950
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Length
210 mm
250 mm
Height
111 mm
111 mm
Width
40 mm
--
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
2 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The ASUS GeForce GTX 950 is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.
The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.
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