NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points

24% slightly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

42 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

32 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

25 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

22 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

21 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

264.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31922 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

21520 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

23785 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

26093 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

24516 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23881 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

45% significantly higher core clock speed

1038 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

51% significantly higher boost clock speed

1127 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

19% slightly higher memory bandwidth

160.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

100 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

13% slightly higher pixel rate

72.13 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

13% slightly higher texture rate

108.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS

13% slightly better floating point performance

3.46 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

1536

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586

230th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce GTX 980M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980M in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980M has a slightly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is better than the GeForce GTX 980M.