EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING
vs
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING has 2816 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.23 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 6.92 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has 1152 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.71 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 3.94 TFLOPS.

GPU

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 22 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 9 execution units.
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
GM200-310-A1 GPU Chip GP106-300-A1
Maxwell 2.0 Architecture Pascal
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 9
2816 Shader 1152
96 Render Output Units 48
176 Texture Units 72
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a 3 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 3 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.753 GHz Memory Clock 2.002 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
337 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING has a turbo clock of 1.228 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is 1.708 GHz.

1.140 GHz Base Clock 1.506 GHz
1.228 GHz Boost Clock 1.708 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 91 °C.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 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.

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

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING are cooled with a Water cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

Connectivity

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

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

Supported Video Codecs

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.

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

Dimensions

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

267 mm Length 250 mm
111 mm Height 111 mm
-- Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING was released in Q2/2015.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.

06G-P4-4999-KR Part-no --
Q2/2015 Release date Q3/2016
849 $ Launch Price 199 $ (Reference)
28 nm Structure size 16 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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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

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)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
3 GB GDDR5
28 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
3 GB GDDR5
45 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
3 GB GDDR5
65 fps (avg)

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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