NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 980 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1709MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +38%

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

2816

Shading Units

1280

176

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

120W

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

GP104

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

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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