GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and Radeon HD 8970M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
9876
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Radeon HD 8970M
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GP106
Neptune
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2016
May 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
900 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,935 gflops
2,304 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1152
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
123.0
72.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.2.131