NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M 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 960M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1670MHz vs 1176MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +184%

4.275 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960M

1231

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +198%

3669

GeForce GTX 960M

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GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

1404 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

640

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

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Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.16 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

133.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

66.80 GFLOPS

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.275 TFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

133.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GP106

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

Maxwell

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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