NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Full Specs

Summary

1,280 Shaders 1.71GHz	1,664 Shaders 1.18GHz
6GB GDDR5192GB/s	4GB GDDR5224GB/s
Peak·FP32·FP16 4.37 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 3.92 TFLOPS
Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
TDP 120W	TDP 145W
Power Connectors 1x 6-Pin	Power Connectors 2x 6-Pin

Highlights

Peak OPS

Peak OPS FP32 FP16 FP64 Memory Bandwidth TDP

GeForce GTX 10604.37 TFLOPSFP32

x1.12

GeForce GTX 9703.92 TFLOPSFP32

x1

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1708MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1178MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 4.37 TFLOPSFP32	Peak OPS 3.92 TFLOPSFP32
FP32 4.37 TFLOPS	FP32 3.92 TFLOPS
FP64 136.6 GFLOPS	FP64 122.5 GFLOPS
Pixel Rate 82 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 66 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 136.6 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 122.5 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 1,280 Shaders	Shaders 1,664 Shaders
TMUs 80 TMUs	TMUs 104 TMUs
ROPs 48 ROPs	ROPs 56 ROPs
SMs 10 SMs	SMs 13 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock 1.51GHz	Base Clock 1.05GHz
Boost Clock 1.71GHz	Boost Clock 1.18GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 1.5MB shared

L2 Cache 1.8MB shared

Memory

6GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR5
Memory Bus 192-bit	Memory Bus 256-bit
Memory Speed 8GT/s	Memory Speed 7GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 192GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 224GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP 120W

TDP 145W

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 3

Multi-Monitor 3

Ports

3x DisplayPort 1.4	-
-	3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0	1x HDMI 2.0
1x DVI-D Dual-Link	-
-	1x DVI-I Dual-Link

Encoder

Encoder Model NVENC 4

Encoder Model 2x NVENC 3

Decoder

Decoder Model NVDEC 3

Decoder Model NVDEC 1

Card

Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
PCIe 2-Slots	PCIe 2-Slots
Height 112 mm (4.41") Width 250 mm (9.84") Depth 40 mm (1.57")	Height 111 mm (4.37") Width 267 mm (10.51") Depth 40 mm (1.57")
Cooling Blower 1x Fan	Cooling Blower 1x Fan
Power Connectors 1x 6-Pin	Power Connectors 2x 6-Pin

Chip

Manufacturer NVIDIA	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer NVIDIA	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture Pascal	Architecture Maxwell 2
Family GeForce 10	Family GeForce 900
Branding	Branding
Codename NV136	Codename NV124
Chip Variant GP106-300-A1	Chip Variant -
Market Segment Desktop	Market Segment Desktop
Release Date Jul 19, 2016	Release Date Sep 18, 2014

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node 16FF	Fabrication Node 28nm
Die Size 200mm²	Die Size 398mm²
Transistor Count 4.4 Billion	Transistor Count 5.2 Billion
Transistor Density 22 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 13.07 MTr/mm²

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Used In

Laptops Surface Book 2 15(Late 2017)	Laptops -
All-in-Ones Surface Studio 2(Late 2018)	All-in-Ones -

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