NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1670MHz vs 1178MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (80W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +9%

4.275 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1404 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

1280

104

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.16 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

133.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

66.80 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.275 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

133.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GP106

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

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

5.2

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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