GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N17E-G1
Wimbledon XT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
August 2016
May 2012
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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SLI options
-
-
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
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Core clock speed
1506 MHz
850 MHz
CUDA cores
1280
-
Floating-point performance
4,275 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
80 Watt
200 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
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Texture fill rate
133.6
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Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
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Memory bus width
192 Bit
2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.43, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
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Multi monitor support
+
-
HDCP
2.2
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.1
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.5
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Shader Model
6.4
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Vulkan
1.2.131
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Ansel
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
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VR Ready
+
-