NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1709MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +13%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

1127 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

165W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-400-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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