NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1708MHz vs 1076MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +54%

6.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3849

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +49%

5754

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

188

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +189%

544

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

76

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +75%

133

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

15

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +60%

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

29

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +55%

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

44

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +70%

75

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

2816

72

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

96

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GM200

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

601 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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