NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1709MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (5GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +11%

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +7%

3909

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

15

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +6%

16

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

30

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +33%

40

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

40

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +25%

50

GeForce GTX 970

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GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Dec 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

160bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

1280

104

TMUs

80

56

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GP106

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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