NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB 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

2457 points

48% significantly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

32 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

25 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

22 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

21 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points

42% significantly higher Blender score

264.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

34034 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

21520 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

23785 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

26093 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

24516 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

49% significantly 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

1709 MHz

51% significantly higher boost clock speed

1127 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

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

82.03 Gigapixels/s

13% slightly higher pixel rate

72.13 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

26% slightly higher texture rate

108.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.04 TFLOPS

16% slightly better floating point performance

3.46 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

1536

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

20% 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

180th of 586

230th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

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 6GB vs GeForce GTX 980M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 980M in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980M has a slightly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is faster than the GeForce GTX 980M.