NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M 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 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1480MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +129%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

-

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Saturn

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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