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    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 15 Aug 2016
    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 21 Sep 2015
    GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      101%
    • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    No clear winner declared

    We have no data to declare a winner at this time.

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    GPU NameGP106 (N17E-G1-A1)vsGM204 ()
    Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size200 mm²vs398 mm²
    Transistors4,400 millionvs5,200 million
    Shaders1280vs2048
    Compute Units10vs16
    Core clock1404 MHzvs1064 MHz
    ROPs48vs64
    TMUs80vs128

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
    Memory Speed2002 MHz
    8008 MHz effective    		vs1753 MHz
    7012 MHz effective
    Memory Size6144 Mbvs8192 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    TDP80 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date15 Aug 2016vs21 Sep 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      67.40 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
      68.10 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      112.30 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
      136.20 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      192.20 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
      224.40 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      3594.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
      4358.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      14100
    • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
      13830

    Points (higher is better)

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