AMD Radeon 780M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 780M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon 780M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 780M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 19% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1265 MHz
Around 96% higher boost clock speed: 2900 MHz vs 1480 MHz
1175.7x more texture fill rate: 139.2 GTexel/s vs 118.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 16 nm
5.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 80 Watt

Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 27 June 2017
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1265 MHz
Boost clock speed	2900 MHz vs 1480 MHz
Texture fill rate	139.2 GTexel/s vs 118.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 80 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB

Around 67% higher pipelines: 1280 vs 768

Pipelines	1280 vs 768

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 780M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB

Name	AMD Radeon 780M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
Geekbench - OpenCL	27793
PassMark - G2D Mark	879
PassMark - G3D Mark	6998
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	480

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 780M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Pascal
Code name	Phoenix	GP106
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	27 June 2017
Place in performance rating	240	not rated
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2900 MHz	1480 MHz
Compute units	12
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	1265 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	16 nm
Pipelines	768	1280
Pixel fill rate	92.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	139.2 GTexel/s	118.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	80 Watt
Floating-point performance		3,789 gflops
Transistor count		4,400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent	192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	System Shared	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	8008 MHz
Memory type	System Shared	GDDR5
Technologies
CUDA