GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 260

GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060
GeForce GTX 260
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 260

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

62 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 260 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 260

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

GeForce GTX 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX 260
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-400-A1)vsGT200 (G200-100-A2)
Fab Process16 nmvs65 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs576 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs1,400 million
Shaders1280vs192
Compute Units10vs8
Core clock1506 MHzvs576 MHz
ROPs48vs28
TMUs80vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX 260
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs448 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs896 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX 260
TDP120 wattsvs182 watts
Release Date10 Jul 2016vs16 Jun 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    16.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    36.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    112.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 260
    476.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better