NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2017
Apr 2012
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
London
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1063 MHz
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Boost Clock
1480 MHz
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Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
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Shading Units
1280
1280
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
71.04 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
59.20 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
2.176 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
118.4 GFLOPS
136.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
Wimbledon
GPU Variant
N17E-G1-A1
Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
80W
100W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
6.1
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Shader Model
6.4
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.