AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M 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 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1480MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +74%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

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GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jun 2017

London

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1063 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

80W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

GP106

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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