GeForce GTX 970M vs 1060 Mobile |
Released October, 2014
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M
- 1 GHz
- 6 GB GDDR5
by Tim-Verry (Jun, 2013)These chips are still based on Kepler (600-series), but feature more CUDA cores, more memory, a wider memory bus, and faster clockspeeds.
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Released August, 2016
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
- 1.4 GHz
- 6 GB GDDR5
by www.tweaktown.com (Jul, 2016)Performance (overclocking, power)90%Quality (build, design, cooling)85%General Features (display outputs, etc)95%Bundle, Packaging & Software90%Value for Money80% Overall TweakTown Rating88% The Bottom Line: NVIDIA crafts yet another great graphics card in the GeForce GTX 1060, with all of the benefits and features of Pascal in a 120W TDP package.
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| GPUBoss is not aware of any important advantages of the 970M vs the 1060 Mobile. | |||||||
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| Much better PassMark score | 8,710 | vs | 4,048 | Around 2.2x better PassMark score | |||
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| Significantly higher clock speed | 1,404 MHz | vs | 1,038 MHz | More than 35% higher clock speed | |||
| Significantly higher effective memory clock speed | 8,008 MHz | vs | 5,012 MHz | Around 60% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Much higher turbo clock speed | 1,670 MHz | vs | 993 MHz | Around 70% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 192.2 GB/s | vs | 120.3 GB/s | Around 60% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 3,594 GFLOPS | vs | 2,657.3 GFLOPS | More than 35% better floating-point performance | |||
| Much better PassMark direct compute score | 5,039 | vs | 2,799 | More than 80% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 67.4 GPixel/s | vs | 49.8 GPixel/s | More than 35% higher pixel rate | |||
| Much higher memory clock speed | 2,002 MHz | vs | 1,253 MHz | Around 60% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Significantly better ocean surface simulation score | 1,693.51 frames/s | vs | 1,113.79 frames/s | More than 50% better ocean surface simulation score | |||
| Higher texture rate | 112.3 GTexel/s | vs | 83 GTexel/s | More than 35% higher texture rate | |||
| Significantly higher bioshock infinite framerate | 99.4 | vs | 71.8 | Around 40% higher bioshock infinite framerate | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 970M vs 1060 Mobile
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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