GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce 8800 GS
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 8800 GS |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1060 | | GeForce 8800 GS | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP106 (GP106-400-A1) | vs | G92 (G92-150-A2) |
| Fab Process | 16 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 200 mm² | vs | 324 mm² |
| Transistors | 4,400 million | vs | 754 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 96 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 6 |
| Core clock | 1506 MHz | vs | 550 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | vs | 12 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1060 | | GeForce 8800 GS | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 192 bit |
| Memory Speed | 2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 6144 Mb | vs | 384 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1060 | | GeForce 8800 GS | |
|---|
| TDP | 120 watts | vs | 105 watts |
| Release Date | 10 Jul 2016 | vs | 31 Jan 2008 |
GeForce GTX 1060
72.30 GP/s
GeForce 8800 GS
6.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1060
120.50 GT/s
GeForce 8800 GS
26.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1060
192.20 GB/s
GeForce 8800 GS
38.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1060
3855.00 GFLOPs
GeForce 8800 GS
264.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better