NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon Pro 580X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

AMD Radeon Pro 580X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580X 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 23% (1480MHz vs 1200MHz)

Lower TDP (80W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon Pro 580X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (218.9GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580X +45%

5.53 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +1%

340

Radeon Pro 580X

334

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

Radeon Pro 580X

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1710 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

218.9GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.40 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

172.8 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.530 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.530 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

345.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

185W

-

No outputs

Outputs

2x HDMI 2.0b

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Ellesmere

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

232 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

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