NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon R9 M470X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q AMD Radeon R9 M470X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470X 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 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1480MHz vs 1100MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +92%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

Radeon R9 M470X

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

1100 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

1280

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Emerald

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Emerald 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

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

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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