GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX TITAN Z

GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060
GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 28 May 2014
GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    100%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    122%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

22% higher gaming performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 TITAN Z

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX TITAN Z

The GeForce GTX TITAN Z is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX TITAN Z
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-400-A1)vsGK110B (GK110-430-B1)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders1280vs2880
Compute Units10vs15
Core clock1506 MHzvs705 MHz
ROPs48vs48
TMUs80vs240

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX TITAN Z
TDP120 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date10 Jul 2016vs28 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    84.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    338.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    672.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    8122.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

Thief 2014

DX11, Very High Details

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    79
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    84

FPS (higher is better)

Thief 2014

DX11, Very High Details

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    56
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    71

FPS (higher is better)

Thief 2014

DX11, Very High Details

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    29
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    39

FPS (higher is better)