NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 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 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1480MHz vs 1124MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +163%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

993 MHz

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.98 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GM107

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

5.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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