NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2017
Sep 2015
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
GeForce 900M
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1063 MHz
1064 MHz
Boost Clock
1480 MHz
1140 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1753 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
6GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
224.4GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
10
-
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
71.04 GPixel/s
72.96 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
145.9 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
59.20 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
4.669 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
118.4 GFLOPS
145.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GP106
GM204
GPU Variant
N17E-G1-A1
N16E-GXX-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
80W
Unknown
Outputs
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
None
None

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
6.7 (6.4)