NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2016
Dec 2010
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Northern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1404 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1670 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
176.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
-
Shading Units
1280
1536
TMUs
80
96
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
80.16 GPixel/s
28.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
133.6 GTexel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
66.80 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
4.275 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
133.6 GFLOPS
675.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
Cayman
GPU Variant
N17E-G1-A1
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Architecture
Pascal
TeraScale 3
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
40 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
389 mm²
Board Design
TDP
80W
250W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
6.1
-
Shader Model
6.4
5.0