NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2014
Mar 2018
Generation
GeForce 800M
GeForce 10
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
941 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
967 MHz
1708 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
192bit
Bandwidth
120.0GB/s
192.2GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1344
1280
TMUs
112
80
ROPs
24
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
384 KB
1536 KB
SM Count
—
10
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.08 GPixel/s
81.98 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
108.3 GTexel/s
136.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.599 TFLOPS
4.372 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
108.3 GFLOPS
136.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
68.32 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GK104
GP104
GPU Variant
N15E-GT-A2
GP104-150-KA-A1
Architecture
Kepler
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
120W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.1
1.3
CUDA
3.0
6.1
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.