GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 15 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Jun 2015
GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    174%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

170 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 980 Ti .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Around 74% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980 Ti

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 980 Ti
GPU NameGP106 (N17E-G1-A1)vsGM200 (GM200-310-A1)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs601 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs8,000 million
Shaders1280vs2816
Compute Units10vs22
Core clock1404 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs48vs96
TMUs80vs176

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 980 Ti
TDP80 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date15 Aug 2016vs2 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    67.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    96.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    112.30 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    176.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    337.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    3594.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    5632.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    14100
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    24560

Points (higher is better)