NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs 970
General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
Conclusion
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General info
Comparison of GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GTX 970 architecture, market type and release date.
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GTX 970's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GTX 970's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines
1280
1664
CUDA cores
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1664
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1708 MHz
1178 MHz
Transistor count
4,400 million
5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
148 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
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98 °C
Texture fill rate
136.7
109 billion/sec
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
3,920 gflops
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GTX 970 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
Bus support
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PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Length
250 mm
10.5" (26.7 cm)
Height
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4.376" (11.1 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)
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500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pins
SLI options
-
+
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GTX 970: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6.144 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
224 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GTX 970. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Display Connectors
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Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
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4 displays
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
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2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
+
Audio input for HDMI
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Internal
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GTX 970. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
GameStream
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
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2.0
GameWorks
-
+
VR Ready
+
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G-SYNC
+
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API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GTX 970, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
CUDA
6.1
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Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GTX 970. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
GTX 1060 6 GB
39.57 +5.9%
GTX 970
37.38
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
GTX 1060 6 GB
235179
GTX 970
422295 +79.6%
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
GTX 1060 6 GB
76477 +5%
GTX 970
72819
3DMark Fire Strike Score
GTX 1060 6 GB
11039 +17%
GTX 970
9434
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
GTX 1060 6 GB
12816 +7.2%
GTX 970
11954
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
GTX 1060 6 GB
17288 +7.8%
GTX 970
16033
3DMark Vantage Performance
GTX 1060 6 GB
43717 +3.4%
GTX 970
42263
Passmark
GTX 1060 6 GB
10252 +5.9%
GTX 970
9683
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GTX 970. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)
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478 Mh/s
Decred / DCR (Decred)
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1.51 Gh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)
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22.21 Mh/s
Monero / XMR (CryptoNight)
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0.48 kh/s
Zcash / ZEC (Equihash)
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291.61 Sol/s
Gaming performance
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GTX 970 are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.
Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
5.9% faster in synthetic tests
Much newer (19 July 2016 vs 19 September 2014)
Finer manufacturing process technology (16 vs 28 nm)
Less power hungry (120 vs 148 watts)
VR Ready
Vulkan (a contemporary API for graphics acceleration, based on now-discontinued Mantle)
Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Cheaper ($284.00 USD vs $497.00 USD)
Wider memory bus (256 vs 192 bit)
More pipelines (1664 vs 1280)
Higher memory bandwidth (224 vs 192.2 GB/s)
CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture - an API for video card computing power usage in tasks different from 3D graphics processing. Can be used for physics simulation for instance)
PhysX (hardware acceleration of physical simulation engine named PhysX)
So, GTX 1060 6 GB or 970?
Technical City couldn't decide between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970. The differences in performance seem too small.
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