GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 960

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 15 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
GeForce GTX 960
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jan 2015
GeForce GTX 960

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    135%
  • GeForce GTX 960
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

40 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 960 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 35% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 960

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

The GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 960
GPU NameGP106 (N17E-G1-A1)vsGM206 (GM206-300-A1)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs2,940 million
Shaders1280vs1024
Compute Units10vs8
Core clock1404 MHzvs1127 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs80vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 960
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 960
TDP80 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date15 Aug 2016vs22 Jan 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    67.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    36.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    112.30 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    72.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    112.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    3594.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 960
    2308.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    14100
  • GeForce GTX 960
    10380

Points (higher is better)