Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jan 2018 | 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 | 6GB | 4GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 192bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 192.2GB/s | 224.4GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| SM Count | 10 | |
| Shading Units | 1280 | 1664 |
| TMUs | 80 | 104 |
| ROPs | 48 | 56 |
| L1 Cache | 48 KB (per SM) | 48 KB (per SMM) |
| L2 Cache | 1536 KB | 2 MB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 82.03 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 | GP106-400-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 |