NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M 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 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1670MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +96%

4.275 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1404 MHz

Base Clock

-

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

133.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

66.80 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.275 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

133.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Wimbledon

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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