NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1480MHz vs 1085MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 860M

1.389 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +172%

3.789 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 860M

1149

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +188%

3320

GeForce GTX 860M

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1020 MHz

Base Clock

1063 MHz

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

10

640

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

43.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

1389 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

43.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GP106

N15P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

Maxwell

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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