NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GP104 GM204
GPU variant GP104-140-KA-A1 GM204-200-A1
Architecture Pascal Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 16 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 7,200 million 5,200 million
Die size 314 mm² 398 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Dec 25th, 2016 Sep 19th, 2014
Generation GeForce 10 GeForce 900
Predecessor GeForce 900 GeForce 700
Successor GeForce 20 GeForce 10
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 199 USD 329 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 117 in our database 111 in our database

Clocks

Base clock 1506 MHz 1050 MHz
Boost clock 1708 MHz 1178 MHz
Memory clock 2002 MHz 8 Gbps effective 1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 3 GB 4 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 192.2 GB/s 224.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1152 1664
TMUs 72 104
ROPs 48 56
SM count 9
Cache L1 48 KB (per SM) 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 1536 KB 2 MB
SMM count 13

Performance

Pixel rate 81.98 GPixel/s 65.97 GPixel/s
Texture rate 123.0 GTexel/s 122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 61.49 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP32 (float) performance 3.935 TFLOPS 3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 123.0 GFLOPS (1:32) 122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 250 mm 9.8 inches 267 mm 10.5 inches
TDP 120 W 148 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 300 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 40 mm 1.6 inches
Board number PG401

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
CUDA 6.1 5.2
Shader model 6.4 6.4

Other Features

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