GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    110%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    106%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

6% higher gaming performance.
130 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBGeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-300-A1)vsGK110B (GK110-430-B1)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders1152vs2880
Compute Units9vs15
Core clock1506 MHzvs889 MHz
ROPs48vs48
TMUs72vs240

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBGeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBGeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
TDP120 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date18 Aug 2016vs18 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    72.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    53.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    108.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    213.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    336.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    3470.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    5121.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    16380
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    14880

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Thief 2014

DX11, Very High Details

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    82
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    65

FPS (higher is better)

Thief 2014

DX11, Very High Details

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    49
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    49

FPS (higher is better)

Thief 2014

DX11, Very High Details

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    24
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    26

FPS (higher is better)