GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs GeForce GTX 760 X2

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
GeForce GTX 760 X2
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 760 X2

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

130 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 760 X2 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 760 X2

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBGeForce GTX 760 X2
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-300-A1)vsGK104 (GK104-425-A2)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders1152vs1152
Compute Units9vs6
Core clock1506 MHzvs1006 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs72vs96

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBGeForce GTX 760 X2
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit x2
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBGeForce GTX 760 X2
TDP120 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date18 Aug 2016vs19 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    72.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 760 X2
    48.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    108.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 760 X2
    193.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 760 X2
    384.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    3470.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 760 X2
    4636.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better