NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 8GB VRAM RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 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

Lower TDP (80W vs 115W)

NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1695MHz vs 1480MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

3.789 TFLOPS

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation +312%

15.62 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

340

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation +712%

2764

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

36

1280

Shading Units

4608

80

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.36 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

244.1 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

15.62 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.62 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

244.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

AD106

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

22.9 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

188 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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