NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1670MHz vs 1127MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +23%

4.275 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +24%

3663

GeForce GTX 980M

2946

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1404 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

80.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

133.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

66.80 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.275 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

133.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GM204

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-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

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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

6.7 (6.4)

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