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MSI GeForce GTX 1060
GPUBoss recommends the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
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Released January, 2015
Nvidia GeForce GTX 960
- 1.1 GHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
7.7 Out of 10
by techPowerUp!Gigabyte has crammed three DisplayPorts, two DVI ports, and an HDMI port onto their board, which is more than anyone else.
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Released July, 2016
MSI GeForce GTX 1060
- 1.5 GHz
- 6 GB GDDR5
7.4 Out of 10
by www.tweaktown.com (Jul, 2016)Performance (overclocking, power)90%Quality (build, design, cooling)85%General Features (display outputs, etc)95%Bundle, Packaging & Software90%Value for Money80% Overall TweakTown Rating88% The Bottom Line: NVIDIA crafts yet another great graphics card in the GeForce GTX 1060, with all of the benefits and features of Pascal in a 120W TDP package.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 960 vs 1060 among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 7.7 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| GPUBoss is not aware of any important advantages of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 vs the MSI GeForce GTX 1060. | |||||||
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| Significantly higher clock speed | 1,544 MHz | vs | 1,127 MHz | More than 35% higher clock speed | |||
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| Significantly better PassMark score | 8,686 | vs | 5,813 | Around 50% better PassMark score | |||
| Significantly more memory | 6,144 MB | vs | 2,048 MB | 3x more memory | |||
| Significantly higher memory bandwidth | 192.2 GB/s | vs | 112.2 GB/s | More than 70% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Significantly higher pixel rate | 74.1 GPixel/s | vs | 36.1 GPixel/s | More than 2x higher pixel rate | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 3,953 GFLOPS | vs | 2,308.1 GFLOPS | More than 70% better floating-point performance | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 8,008 MHz | vs | 7,012 MHz | Around 15% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Much higher turbo clock speed | 1,759 MHz | vs | 1,178 MHz | Around 50% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Higher texture rate | 123.5 GTexel/s | vs | 72.1 GTexel/s | More than 70% higher texture rate | |||
| Significantly better bitcoin mining score | 466.23 mHash/s | vs | 111.95 mHash/s | Around 4.2x better bitcoin mining score | |||
| More render output processors | 48 | vs | 32 | 16 more render output processors | |||
| Significantly better PassMark direct compute score | 5,049 | vs | 3,046 | More than 65% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 2,002 MHz | vs | 1,753 MHz | Around 15% higher memory clock speed | |||
| More shading units | 1,280 | vs | 1,024 | 256 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 80 | vs | 64 | 16 more texture mapping units | |||
| Wider memory bus | 192 bit | vs | 128 bit | 50% wider memory bus | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 960 vs 1060
PassMark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performanceData courtesy Passmark
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
Particle simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) Data courtesy CompuBench
Video composition Data courtesy CompuBench
PassMark Direct Compute Measures performance of general-purpose computing using Microsoft DirectCompute
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