Comparison of GeForce GTX 970 and GeForce GTX 1060

Attribute	GeForce GTX 1060 ×	GeForce GTX 970 ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2016	2014
Reference card	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 1.5 GHz 6 GB	-
GPU brand	Nvidia	Nvidia
GPU name	GP106	GM204
Market	Desktop	Desktop
Clock speed (MHz)	1,544	1,050
Turbo clock speed (MHz)	1,759	1,178
Is dual GPU	-	-
Model	GeForce GTX 1060	GeForce GTX 970
Memory
Memory (MB)	6,144	4,096
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	192.2	224.4
Memory bus (bit)	192	256
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed (MHz)	2,002	1,753
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	8,008	7,012
Noise and power
TDP (W)	120	148
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	74.1	58.8
Render output processors	48	56
Texture mapping units	80	104
Shading units	1,280	1,664
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	3,953	3,494
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	123.5	109.2
Benchmarks
Particle simulation (mInteraction/s)	1196.96	-
T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) (frames/s)	8.68	-
Video composition (frames/s)	21.91	-
Unigine: Heaven 4.0	-	60
Face detection (mPixels/s)	119.24	105.04
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0)	3358.86	3358.38
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0)	3717.62	3715.92
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	576.4	212.39
Sky Diver Factor	-	428.4
Thief	-	75
Fire Strike Factor	-	72.7
Ocean surface simulation (frames/s)	1766.73	-