GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Jun 2015
GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

130 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 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5XGeForce GTX 980 Ti
GPU NameGP104 ()vsGM200 (GM200-310-A1)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs601 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs8,000 million
Shaders1280vs2816
Compute Units10vs22
Core clock1506 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs48vs96
TMUs80vs176

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5XGeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5XvsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1001 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5XGeForce GTX 980 Ti
TDP120 wattsvs250 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs2 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
    82.03 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    96.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
    136.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    176.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    337.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
    4375.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    5632.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better