NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 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

2077 points

43% significantly better overall score

1446 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

59% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2280 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

79% significantly higher Blender score

206.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

18285 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

20012 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21753 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19440 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

19602 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

84% significantly higher core clock speed

924 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

100% significantly more memory

3 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

238th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 970M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1060 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 3 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 970M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 is better than the GeForce GTX 970M.