GeForce GTX 980M vs 1060 Mobile |
Released October, 2014
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M
- 1 GHz
- 8 GB GDDR5
by Ryan-Smith (Sep, 2014)NVIDIA has also been focused on memory efficiency, both for performance and power reasons, resulting in the L2 cache size been greatly increased.
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Released August, 2016
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
- 1.4 GHz
- 6 GB GDDR5
by Ryan-Shrout (Aug, 2016)Can it keep the GPU cool enough to run at reasonable temperatures and to allow the GPU to work at the expected clock speeds?
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| More memory | 8,192 MB | vs | 6,144 MB | Around 35% more memory | |||
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| More render output processors | 64 | vs | 48 | 16 more render output processors | |||
| Wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 192 bit | Around 35% wider memory bus | |||
| More shading units | 1,536 | vs | 1,280 | 256 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 96 | vs | 80 | 16 more texture mapping units | |||
| Better sky diver factor score | 424.41 | vs | 364.88 | More than 15% better sky diver factor score | |||
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| Significantly higher clock speed | 1,404 MHz | vs | 1,038 MHz | More than 35% higher clock speed | |||
| Significantly better PassMark score | 8,724 | vs | 5,690 | Around 55% better PassMark score | |||
| 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 | 1,127 MHz | Around 50% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 192.2 GB/s | vs | 160.4 GB/s | Around 20% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Much higher memory clock speed | 2,002 MHz | vs | 1,253 MHz | Around 60% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Slightly better floating-point performance | 3,594 GFLOPS | vs | 3,189 GFLOPS | Around 15% better floating-point performance | |||
| Better bitcoin mining score | 491.05 mHash/s | vs | 331.65 mHash/s | Around 50% better bitcoin mining score | |||
| Slightly higher texture rate | 112.3 GTexel/s | vs | 99.6 GTexel/s | Around 15% higher texture rate | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 5,053 | vs | 3,464 | More than 45% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Slightly higher thief framerate | 68.6 | vs | 61.85 | More than 10% higher thief framerate | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 980M 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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