Comparing NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 with Max-Q Design vs. 970
Below you can compare the latest GPU-s across multiple benchmarks. Explore detailed graphs, performance scores, and rankings to quickly find the model that best suits your workflow and creative needs.
Verdict
The GTX 1060 with Max-Q Design is 10% faster than the GTX 970
Averaged over 2 rendering benchmarks, the GTX 1060 with Max-Q Design leads in 2 of them. The biggest gap is in Blender, where the GTX 1060 with Max-Q Design scores 19% higher.
Cinebench 2024
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Ranking by benchmarks
OctaneBench 2025
Cinebench 2024
V-Ray benchmark
Blender benchmark
Methodology
Our data above is compiled from multiple sources:
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Our own benchmarks: We conduct extensive testing with the GPU and CPU models we use on the farm. Over the past 10 years we have tested over 1,000 GPUs and 500 CPUs.
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Model scores: Once we have two or more benchmarks for a device we can perform some machine learning computations to estimate a realistic score in any of the other benchmarks we list. These are always marked with an asterisk (*), and while usually accurate shouldn't be taken as the complete truth.
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Public benchmark data: We may supplement our dataset with scores from public OctaneBench, V-Ray Benchmark and Blender Benchmark websites. We cannot test every device available ourselves, so this gives us a nice alternative to get You the results you are looking for.
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