ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
vs
PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and the PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and has 1280 texture shaders and 10 execution units.

PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti, which has 2816 shaders and 22 execution units.
ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GPU PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GP106-400-A1 GPU Chip GM200-310-A1
Pascal Architecture Maxwell 2.0
10 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
1280 Shader 2816
48 Render Output Units 96
80 Texture Units 176
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has 6 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

The PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti can access 6 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 337 GB/s.

6 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
2.002 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
192 GB/s Memory bandwidth 337 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB clocks in the base with up to 1.506 GHz. The base frequency of the PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 1.000 GHz.

1.506 GHz Base Clock 1.000 GHz
1.708 GHz Boost Clock 1.076 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is 120 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin connector.

The PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti has a TDP of 250 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

120 W TDP 250 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 91 °C
1 x 6-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.

The PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 4096x2160 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
No AV1 No
No VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is 242 mm long, 130 mm high and 43 mm wide.

The PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 267 mm long, 111 mm high and 38 mm wide.

242 mm Length 267 mm
130 mm Height 111 mm
43 mm Width 38 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB was released in Q3/2016 at a price of 249 $ (Reference).

The PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti was introduced in Q2/2015 at a price of 699 $.

DUAL-GTX1060-6G Part-no GF980IGTX6GEPB / GF980IGTXBR6GEPB
Q3/2016 Release date Q2/2015
249 $ (Reference) Launch Price 699 $
16 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents --

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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