NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 8GB VRAM RTX A4000 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

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1480MHz vs 1395MHz)

NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

3.789 TFLOPS

RTX A4000 Max Q +276%

14.28 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

RTX A4000 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Quadro Ampere-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

1395 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

352.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

40

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

5120

80

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

111.6 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

223.2 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.28 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.28 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

223.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GA104

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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