NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand 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 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1480MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +196%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

1.28 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

-

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

800

80

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1280 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Broadway

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Broadway XT

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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