Colorful GeForce GTX1060-6G vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Fewer number of ROPs on the Colorful GeForce GTX1060-6G is more than outweighed by higher graphics clock speed, which means its pixel fillrate is higher. Better maximum pixel fill rate allows more pixels to be drawn on screen per second, and is an indication of better GPU performance, unless there are bottlenecks somewhere else.

Even though the GeForce GTX1060-6G has fewer TMUs, it is clocked much higher, as a consequence it has a bit higher texture fillrate. Better texture fill rate means that the graphics card can map more textures and/or utilize more sophisticated 3D effects for each textured picture element, which improves games visual appearance.

Maximum Single Precision performance shows how good the graphics card is at executing programs, that make an extensive use of single-precision floating point numbers. This performance is expressed in GFLOPS or billions of Floating Point Operations Per Second. Generally, the more CUDA cores or stream processors the GPU has, and the the faster they operate at, the higher Single Precision performance will be. The GeForce GTX1060-6G has a no advantage here. Higher single-precision performance number means the graphics card will perform better in general computing applications. Since CUDA cores or stream processors are also used as vertex and geometry shaders for 3D image generation, higher performance is also beneficial to games.

To speed up processing, the graphics cards store 3D scene data, textures and intermediate data, used for image generation, in on-board memory. The video memory usually has much higher bandwidth than system RAM, and more bandwidth allows the graphics card to run at higher display resolutions, use larger and more detailed textures, and apply more complex 3D effects and filters. Memory type, speed, and width of memory interface all affect the bandwidth value. Specifically, the GeForce GTX 980 Mobile GPU offers wider memory bus. As such, it has higher memory bandwidth.