NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 73% (1670MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +64%

4.275 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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GeForce GTX 870M

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1404 MHz

Base Clock

941 MHz

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

967 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1344

80

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

24

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

133.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

66.80 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.275 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.599 TFLOPS

133.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

100W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GK104

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

N15E-GT-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

6.1

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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