GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 780M

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 15 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
GeForce GTX 780M
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 11 May 2013
GeForce GTX 780M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    185%
  • GeForce GTX 780M
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

42 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 780M .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 85% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 780M

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

The GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 780M
GPU NameGP106 (N17E-G1-A1)vsGK104 (N14E-GTX-A2)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders1280vs1536
Compute Units10vs8
Core clock1404 MHzvs771 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs80vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 780M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 780M
TDP80 wattsvs122 watts
Release Date15 Aug 2016vs11 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    67.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 780M
    24.67 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    112.30 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 780M
    98.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 780M
    160.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    3594.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 780M
    2368.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    14100
  • GeForce GTX 780M
    7600

Points (higher is better)

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