NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

64 additional rendering cores

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)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +64%

4.275 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

1404 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

1344

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

24

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.16 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

133.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

66.80 GFLOPS

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.275 TFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

133.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GP106

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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