NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1480MHz vs 1140MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +23%

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

1063 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1280

128

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

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 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

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

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

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.4

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