GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs Arc A550M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 8GB VRAM Arc A550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 64% (1480MHz vs 900MHz)
Arc A550M 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
+2%
3789
Arc A550M
3686
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
3415
Arc A550M
+53%
5235
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
1548
Arc A550M
+51%
2347
Blender
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
340
Arc A550M
+137%
809
Graphics Card
Jun 2017
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 10 Mobile
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1063 MHz
Base Clock
300 MHz
1480 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
2048
80
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
64
-
RT Cores
16
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
1536 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
71.04 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
115.2 GTexel/s
59.20 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
7.373 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.686 TFLOPS
118.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
80W
TDP
60W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
DG2-512
N17E-G1-A1
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Pascal
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
6 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
