AMD Radeon R5 M255 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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AMD Radeon R5 M255

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M255 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 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1480MHz vs 940MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M255

0.721 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +425%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M255

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jun 2017

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

1063 MHz

940 MHz

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

384

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.520 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

22.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

721.9 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

721.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

45.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

GP106

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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