NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2016
Oct 2014
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
GeForce 900M
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1404 MHz
924 MHz
Boost Clock
1670 MHz
1038 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
192bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
120.3GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
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Shading Units
1280
1280
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
48
48
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
80.16 GPixel/s
49.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
133.6 GTexel/s
83.04 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
66.80 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
4.275 TFLOPS
2.657 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
133.6 GFLOPS
83.04 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
GM204
GPU Variant
N17E-G1-A1
N16E-GT-A2
Architecture
Pascal
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
80W
Unknown
Outputs
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
None
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
6.1
5.2
Shader Model
6.4
6.7 (6.4)
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.