NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 6970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M 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 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1670MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +227%

4.275 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 6970M

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1404 MHz

Base Clock

-

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

1280

Shading Units

960

80

TMUs

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

80.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

133.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

66.80 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.275 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

133.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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