GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 Advantages
384 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1709MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
Lower TDP (120W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
+11%
4375
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
10
1664
Shading Units
1280
104
TMUs
80
56
ROPs
64
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
109.4 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
120W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GP104
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GP104-150-KA-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
314 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
5.2
CUDA
6.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
