NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M 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 950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1480MHz vs 1124MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +163%

3.789 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 950M

101

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +236%

340

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 950M

27

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +125%

61

GeForce GTX 950M

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GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

1063 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

28.80GB/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

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Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GP106

N16P-GT

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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