GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

130 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 780 Ti .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 780 Ti

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6 GB GDDR5X

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5XGeForce GTX 780 Ti
GPU NameGP104 ()vsGK110B (GK110-425-B1)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders1280vs2880
Compute Units10vs15
Core clock1506 MHzvs875 MHz
ROPs48vs48
TMUs80vs240

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5XGeForce GTX 780 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5XvsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1001 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5XGeForce GTX 780 Ti
TDP120 wattsvs250 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs7 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
    82.03 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    52.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
    136.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    210.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    336.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
    4375.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    5040.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better