NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon 540X Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon 540X 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 Clock has increased by 35% (1480MHz vs 1095MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +238%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon 540X Mobile

1.121 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

Radeon 540X Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Feb 2019

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

980 MHz

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

1095 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.52 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.04 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1121 GFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1121 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.08 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Lexa

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6870M

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD FirePro M3900

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD FirePro M4100

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon R7 M440

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8570M

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon RX 5700M

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 645M

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs NVIDIA NVS 5400M

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon R5 M430

Related News

1

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

2

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

3

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

4

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

5

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

6

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

7

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

8

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

9

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

10

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game