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    GeForce GTX 870M vs GeForce GTX 1060

    GeForce GTX 870M
    Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 12 Mar 2014
    GeForce GTX 870M
    GeForce GTX 1060
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 10 Jul 2016
    GeForce GTX 1060

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 870M
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 1060
      241%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 870M

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 141% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 1060

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

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

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 870MGeForce GTX 1060
    GPU NameGK104 (N15E-GT-A2)vsGP106 (GP106-400-A1)
    Fab Process28 nmvs16 nm
    Die Size294 mm²vs200 mm²
    Transistors3,540 millionvs4,400 million
    Shaders1344vs1280
    Compute Units7vs10
    Core clock941 MHzvs1506 MHz
    ROPs24vs48
    TMUs112vs80

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 870MGeForce GTX 1060
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width192 bitvs192 bit
    Memory Speed1250 MHz
    5000 MHz effective    		vs2002 MHz
    8008 MHz effective
    Memory Size3072 Mbvs6144 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 870MGeForce GTX 1060
    TDP100 wattsvs120 watts
    Release Date12 Mar 2014vs10 Jul 2016

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 870M
      26.35 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 1060
      72.30 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 870M
      105.40 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 1060
      120.50 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 870M
      120.00 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 1060
      192.20 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 870M
      2529.40 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 1060
      3855.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 870M
      7200
    • GeForce GTX 1060
      17380

    Points (higher is better)

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