NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon R9 M365X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop) and AMD Radeon R9 M365X 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 67% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 85% higher boost clock speed: 1708 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • 3.6x more texture fill rate: 133.6 GTexel / s vs 37 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 1280 vs 640
  • 3.6x better floating-point performance: 4,275 gflops vs 1,184 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
  • 7.1x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1125 MHz
  • 5.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8161 vs 1482
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 August 2016 vs 5 May 2015
Core clock speed 1506 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed 1708 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate 133.6 GTexel / s vs 37 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1280 vs 640
Floating-point performance 4,275 gflops vs 1,184 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 1125 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8161 vs 1482

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M365X

  • Around 24% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 36410 vs 29463
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 446 vs 444
Geekbench - OpenCL 36410 vs 29463

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M365X

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8161
1482
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
444
446
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
29463
36410
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop) AMD Radeon R9 M365X
PassMark - G3D Mark 8161 1482
PassMark - G2D Mark 444 446
Geekbench - OpenCL 29463 36410
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 111.55
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1371.266
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.49
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 19.803
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 509.222
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12645
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3654
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12645
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3654
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3667

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop) AMD Radeon R9 M365X

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 1.0
Code name GP106B Tropo
Launch date 15 August 2016 5 May 2015
Launch price (MSRP) $237.11
Place in performance rating 400 373
Price now $229.99
Type Laptop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 49.49
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1708 MHz 925 MHz
Core clock speed 1506 MHz 900 MHz
CUDA cores 1280
Floating-point performance 4,275 gflops 1,184 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 28 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 94 °C
Pipelines 1280 640
Texture fill rate 133.6 GTexel / s 37 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt
Transistor count 4,400 million 1,500 million
Compute units 10

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors DP 1.43, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI No outputs
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Multi monitor support
Eyefinity

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0 PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
Vulkan
Mantle
OpenCL Not Listed

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 192 GB / s 72 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz 1125 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
Surround
Virtual Reality
VR Ready
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PCIe 3.0
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
Zero Core
ZeroCore