NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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

Main Differences

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)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

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

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +11%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +7%

3908

GeForce GTX 970

3622

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +6%

16

GeForce GTX 970

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +33%

40

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +25%

50

GeForce GTX 970

40

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1664

80

TMUs

104

40

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GM204

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

148W

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 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

6.1

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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