Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | May 2013 | Jun 2017 |
| Generation | Solar System | GeForce 10 Mobile |
| Type | Mobile | Mobile |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 850 MHz | 1063 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 900 MHz | 1480 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1200 MHz | 2002 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 4GB | 6GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 192bit |
| Bandwidth | 153.6GB/s | 192.2GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 20 | |
| Shading Units | 1280 | 1280 |
| TMUs | 80 | 80 |
| ROPs | 32 | 48 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 48 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 1536 KB |
| SM Count | 10 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 28.80 GPixel/s | 71.04 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 72.00 GTexel/s | 118.4 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.304 TFLOPS | 3.789 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 144.0 GFLOPS | 118.4 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 59.20 GFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Neptune | GP106 |
| GPU Variant | Neptune XT(216-0847000) | N17E-G1-A1 |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Pascal |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 16 nm |
| Transistors | 2.8 billion | 4.4 billion |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | 200 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 100W | 80W |
| Outputs | No outputs | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | None | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 12 (12_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 6.4 |
| CUDA | 6.1 | |