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    GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 970M

    GeForce GTX 1060
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 10 Jul 2016
    GeForce GTX 1060
    GeForce GTX 970M
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 7 Oct 2014
    GeForce GTX 970M

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 1060
      176%
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 76% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    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 1060GeForce GTX 970M
    GPU NameGP106 (GP106-400-A1)vsGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)
    Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size200 mm²vs398 mm²
    Transistors4,400 millionvs5,200 million
    Shaders1280vs1280
    Compute Units10vs10
    Core clock1506 MHzvs1038 MHz
    ROPs48vs48
    TMUs80vs80

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX 970M
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width192 bitvs192 bit
    Memory Speed2002 MHz
    8008 MHz effective    		vs1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective
    Memory Size6144 Mbvs6144 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX 970M
    TDP120 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date10 Jul 2016vs7 Oct 2014

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1060
      72.30 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      49.80 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1060
      120.50 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      83.00 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

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

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 1060
      3855.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      2657.30 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 1060
      17380
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      9860

    Points (higher is better)

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