NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon R5 A255

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

AMD Radeon R5 A255

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 A255 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 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1480MHz vs 940MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

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

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +425%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A255

0.721 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

Radeon R5 A255

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

940 MHz

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

6

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.520 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.56 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

721.9 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Topaz

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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