NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 Mobile 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 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1480MHz vs 1074MHz)

Lower TDP (80W vs 85W)

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 Mobile +16%

4.399 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

Radeon RX 470 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

1074 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

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

34.37 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.5 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.399 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.399 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

274.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

85W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Ellesmere

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere PRO

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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