NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 8790M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8790M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 86% (1670MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

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

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +518%

4.275 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8790M

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1404 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

80.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

133.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

66.80 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.275 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

133.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Mars

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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