Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V
vs
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V and the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and has 1280 texture shaders and 10 execution units.

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, which has 1024 shaders and 8 execution units.
Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V GPU GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GP106-400-A1 GPU Chip GM206-300-A1
Pascal Architecture Maxwell 2.0
10 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
1280 Shader 1024
48 Render Output Units 32
80 Texture Units 64
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V has 6 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 can access 2 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s.

6 GB Memory Size 2 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
2.002 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
192 GB/s Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V clocks in the base with up to 1.544 GHz. The base frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 is 1.152 GHz.

1.544 GHz Base Clock 1.152 GHz
1.759 GHz Boost Clock 1.203 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.18 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V is 120 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin connector.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connectors.

120 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
1 x 6-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
1x DP v1.4 DP Ports 1x DP v1.2
2 DVI Ports 2
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 is 4096x2160 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED Addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
No AV1 No
No VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V is -- long, -- high and -- wide.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 is 177 mm long, 121 mm high and 36 mm wide.

-- Length 177 mm
-- Height 121 mm
-- Width 36 mm
-- Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V was released in Q3/2016 at a price of 249 $ (Reference).

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 was introduced in Q3/2015 at a price of 199 $.

-- Part-no GV-N960WF2CN-2GD
Q3/2016 Release date Q3/2015
249 $ (Reference) Launch Price 199 $
16 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V
6 GB GDDR5
31 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V
6 GB GDDR5
56 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V Colorful GeForce GTX 1060 NB 6G-V
6 GB GDDR5
75 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

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.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

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.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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