NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M 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 8 years late

Boost Clock1480MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (38W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +1335%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTS 260M

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

-

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

12

1280

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

38W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GT215

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

N10E-GS

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

1.2

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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