NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X 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

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1480MHz vs 1211MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +205%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

1.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

1124 MHz

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

1211 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.38 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.75 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1240 GFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1240 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Polaris 23

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXL

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

103 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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