NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Unknown
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1709 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
256.3GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
1280
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
SM Count
—
10
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
109.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
68.36 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GP104
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
GP104-150-KA-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
165W
120W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
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
5.2
6.1
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.