NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 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 10 months late

Lower TDP (80W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1734MHz vs 1480MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile +134%

8.878 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

3320

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile +118%

7245

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

1556 MHz

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

1734 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

111.0 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.4 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.7 GFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.878 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GP104

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

N17E-G3-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

16 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

150W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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