GeForce GTX 980M SLI and GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980M SLI
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
-
N17E-G1
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
October 2014
August 2016
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1127 MHz
1708 MHz
Core clock speed
1038 MHz
1506 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1280
Floating-point performance
-
4,275 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
2x 5200 Million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3072
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
80 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
94 °C
Texture fill rate
-
133.6
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
192 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
DP 1.43, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDCP
-
2.2
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
12_1
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.5
Shader Model
-
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
Ansel
-
+
GameStream
-
+
GPU Boost
-
3.0
Optimus
+
-
VR Ready
-
+