NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1708MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

1664

72

TMUs

104

48

ROPs

56

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

148W

300 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

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GM204

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

398 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

6.1

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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