NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2017
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
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
5GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
160bit
256bit
Bandwidth
160.2GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
-
Shading Units
1280
1664
TMUs
80
104
ROPs
40
56
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1280 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
68.36 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
GM204
GPU Variant
GP106-350-K3-A1
GM204-200-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
148W
Suggested PSU
300 W
300 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
6.4
6.4
📊 Benchmark
Blender
332
305
3DMark Time Spy
-
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
1,683
OctaneBench
-
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
40