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- GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 980M
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 980M
| GeForce GTX 1060 MobileMemory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILERelease date: 15 Aug 2016 |
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| GeForce GTX 980MMemory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILERelease date: 7 Oct 2014 |
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile114%
- GeForce GTX 980M100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 14% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 980M |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
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 Mobile | GeForce GTX 980M |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP106 (N17E-G1-A1) | vs | GM204 (N16E-GX-A1) |
| Fab Process | 16 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 200 mm² | vs | 398 mm² |
| Transistors | 4,400 million | vs | 5,200 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 1536 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 12 |
| Core clock | 1404 MHz | vs | 1038 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | vs | 64 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 96 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile | GeForce GTX 980M |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 2002 MHz 8008 MHz effective | vs | 1253 MHz 5012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 6144 Mb | vs | 8192 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile | GeForce GTX 980M |
|---|
| TDP | 80 watts | vs | 0 watts |
| Release Date | 15 Aug 2016 | vs | 7 Oct 2014 |
Raw Performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile67.40 GP/s
- GeForce GTX 980M66.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile112.30 GT/s
- GeForce GTX 980M99.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile192.20 GB/s
- GeForce GTX 980M160.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile3594.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GTX 980M3189.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile14100
- GeForce GTX 980M12270
Points (higher is better)
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