NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +11%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

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GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Unknown

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

1001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

1280

104

TMUs

80

56

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 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

GP104

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

314 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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