GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages
More VRAM (6GB vs 5GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1709MHz vs 1076MHz)
Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+38%
6060
GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
4375
Blender
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+63%
544
GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
332
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+50%
24
GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
16
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+12%
45
GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
40
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+50%
75
GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
50
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
Dec 2017
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
5GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
160bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
160.2GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
10
2816
Shading Units
1280
176
TMUs
80
96
ROPs
40
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
1280 KB
Theoretical Performance
103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
68.36 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
120W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
GP106
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
GP106-350-K3-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
8 billion
Transistors
4.4 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
6.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
