The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X has 1280 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.71 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.38 TFLOPS.
Quick comparison
In FP32 performance, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X is 12 % faster than the EVGA GeForce GTX 970.
The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 13 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 10 execution units.
Memory
Memory
EVGA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X
Memory Size
4 GB
6 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Clock
1.753 GHz
1.001 GHz
Memory Speed
7.0 Gbps
8.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
192 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
192 bit
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The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.001GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
EVGA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X
Base Clock
1.050 GHz
1.506 GHz
Boost Clock
1.178 GHz
1.708 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 has a turbo clock of 1.178 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X is 1.708 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
EVGA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X
TDP
145 W
120 W
Tjunction max
98 °C
94 °C
PCIe-Power
2 x 6-Pin
1 x 6-Pin
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The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 has 2 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
EVGA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X
Fan-Type
Radial
Radial
Fan 1
1 x 65 mm
1 x 65 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB
--
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the EVGA GeForce GTX 970 are cooled with a Air cooling.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
EVGA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.2
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort
1x DP 1.2
3x DP 1.4
DVI
2
1
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The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
EVGA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X
Max. resolution
4096x2160
7680x4320
DirectX
12_1
12_1
Raytracing
No
No
DLSS / FSR
No
Yes
LED
No LED lighting
No LED lighting
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The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
EVGA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
No
Decode / Encode
VP8
Decode
No
VP9
No
Decode
AV1
No
No
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This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.
Dimensions
Dimensions
EVGA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X
Length
241 mm
250 mm
Height
111 mm
111 mm
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
2 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
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.
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.
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