NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 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

Boost Clock1480MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +474%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

Radeon 520 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

-

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

20

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.240 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.60 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

659.2 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

41.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Banks

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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