NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jul 2016
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 10
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
1216 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
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Shading Units
1280
2048
TMUs
80
128
ROPs
48
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
82.03 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
GM204
GPU Variant
GP106-400-A1
GM204-400-A1
Architecture
Pascal
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
165W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
6.1
5.2
Shader Model
6.8
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
4,203
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,917
—
Battlefield 5 1080p
74
—
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
9
—
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
32
—
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
50
—
Battlefield 5 2160p
27
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Battlefield 5 1440p
50
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.