NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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

Main Differences

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)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +9%

4.275 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1404 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1664

80

TMUs

104

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

75.39 GPixel/s

133.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

66.80 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.275 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

133.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GM204

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-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

148W

-

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

6.1

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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