NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q AMD Radeon R9 M485X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 M485X 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 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1480MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (80W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 M485X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +27%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M485X

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

Radeon R9 M485X

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

-

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Amethyst

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

5 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

250W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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