NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile 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 RTX 4090 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1695MHz vs 1480MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

8448 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile +770%

32.98 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

3.789 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile +553%

21684

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

3320

Blender

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile +2195%

7828

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

341

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile +1083%

722

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

61

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

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GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1335 MHz

Base Clock

1063 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

76

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

9728

Shading Units

1280

304

TMUs

80

112

ROPs

48

304

Tensor Cores

-

76

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

515.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

32.98 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

32.98 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

515.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GP106

GN21-X11

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

16 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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