NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5
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INNO3D GeForce GTX 960 iCHILL X3 Air Boss Ultra 4GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 has 1280 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.71 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.38 TFLOPS.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 960 iCHILL X3 Air Boss Ultra 4GB has 1024 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.39 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 2.85 TFLOPS.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 10 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card INNO3D GeForce GTX 960 iCHILL X3 Air Boss Ultra 4GB is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 8 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 GPU INNO3D GeForce GTX 960 iCHILL X3 Air Boss Ultra 4GB
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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 960 iCHILL X3 Air Boss Ultra 4GB has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 4 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 has a turbo clock of 1.708 GHz. The turbo frequency of the INNO3D GeForce GTX 960 iCHILL X3 Air Boss Ultra 4GB is 1.393 GHz.

1.506 GHz Base Clock 1.329 GHz
1.708 GHz Boost Clock 1.393 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 has 1 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 94 °C.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 960 iCHILL X3 Air Boss Ultra 4GB is equipped with a 2 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

120 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
1 x 6-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 960 iCHILL X3 Air Boss Ultra 4GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

Radial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 65 mm Fan 1 3 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 960 iCHILL X3 Air Boss Ultra 4GB supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 960 iCHILL X3 Air Boss Ultra 4GB supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

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

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.

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

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the INNO3D GeForce GTX 960 iCHILL X3 Air Boss Ultra 4GB is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

250 mm Length 300 mm
111 mm Height 115 mm
-- Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 was released in Q3/2016.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 960 iCHILL X3 Air Boss Ultra 4GB published in Q4/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

-- Part-no C960-2SDN-M5CNX
Q3/2016 Release date Q4/2015
249 $ (Reference) Launch Price 249 $
16 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents --

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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)

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6 GB GDDR5
30 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

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6 GB GDDR5
54 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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6 GB GDDR5
73 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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