NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Steam Deck GPU

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q AMD Steam Deck GPU

We compared a Mobile platform GPU: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and a Game console GPU: 16GB VRAM Steam Deck GPU 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Steam Deck GPU 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1600MHz vs 1480MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (15W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +131%

3.789 TFLOPS

Steam Deck GPU

1.638 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

Steam Deck GPU

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Feb 2022

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Console GPU

Mobile

Type

Game console

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

-

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

LPDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

1280

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

8

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.20 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.277 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.638 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

102.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Van Gogh

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

100-000000405

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

163 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

15W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x USB Type-C

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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