GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
N16E-GXX
N17E-G1
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
September 2014
August 2016
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1216 MHz
1708 MHz
Core clock speed
1064 MHz
1506 MHz
CUDA cores
2048
1280
Floating-point performance
4,358 gflops
4,275 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
100-200 Watt
80 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
94 °C
Texture fill rate
144 billion/sec
133.6
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
192 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
DP 1.43, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
Multi monitor support
4 displays
+
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
2.2
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
+
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
Ansel
-
+
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
+
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
3.0
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-
VR Ready
-
+