NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 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 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1709MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

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

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +11%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +16%

4207

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

9

GeForce GTX 970 +66%

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +6%

32

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +25%

50

GeForce GTX 970

40

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Jul 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

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1664

80

TMUs

104

48

ROPs

56

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

136.7 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

GP106

GPU Name

GM204

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

200 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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