GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 970M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 61% (1670MHz vs 1038MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
+60%
4275
GeForce GTX 970M
2657
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
+62%
3686
GeForce GTX 970M
2274
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
+61%
1687
GeForce GTX 970M
1044
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
924 MHz
1670 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
Render Config
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
1280
80
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
48
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
80.16 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
133.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
66.80 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.275 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
133.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
GM204
N17E-G1-A1
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
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
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)
