NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD FirePro W7170M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

AMD FirePro W7170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1480MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

AMD FirePro W7170M 's Advantages

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +27%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

FirePro W7170M

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Oct 2015

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

-

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Amethyst

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT GL

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

5 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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