NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M270X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 M270X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X 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 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 67% (1670MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +178%

4.275 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

VS

Radeon R9 M270X

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Feb 2015

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1404 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

133.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

66.80 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.275 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

133.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Saturn

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

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

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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