AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M 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 GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 64% (1480MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +64%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

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GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jun 2017

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1063 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GP106

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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