NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Steam Deck GPU

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X AMD Steam Deck GPU

We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and a Game console GPU: 16GB VRAM Steam Deck GPU to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1709MHz vs 1600MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Steam Deck GPU 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (15W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +167%

4.375 TFLOPS

Steam Deck GPU

1.638 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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Steam Deck GPU

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Feb 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

Console GPU

Desktop

Type

Game console

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

-

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

LPDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

1280

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

8

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.20 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.277 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.638 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

102.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Van Gogh

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

100-000000405

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.4 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

163 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

15W

300 W

Suggested PSU

-

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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