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    GeForce GTX 970M vs GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

    GeForce GTX 970M
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 7 Oct 2014
    GeForce GTX 970M
    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 15 Aug 2016
    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

    Summary

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970M

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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Mobile

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

    Based on theoretical specifications.

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)vsGP106 (N17E-G1-A1)
    Fab Process28 nmvs16 nm
    Die Size398 mm²vs200 mm²
    Transistors5,200 millionvs4,400 million
    Shaders1280vs1280
    Compute Units10vs10
    Core clock540 MHzvs1404 MHz
    ROPs48vs48
    TMUs80vs80

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width192 bitvs192 bit
    Memory Speed1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective    		vs2002 MHz
    8008 MHz effective
    Memory Size6144 Mbvs6144 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    TDP0 wattsvs80 watts
    Release Date7 Oct 2014vs15 Aug 2016

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 970M
      25.92 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      67.40 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 970M
      43.20 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      112.30 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 970M
      120.30 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      192.20 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 970M
      1382.40 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      3594.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

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