NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop) vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop) and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.9x more core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 520 MHz
16.1x more texture fill rate: 133.6 GTexel / s vs 8.32 GTexel / s
40x more pipelines: 1280 vs 32
64.2x better floating-point performance: 4,275 gflops vs 66.56 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 80 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 512 MB
6.2x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1300 MHz

Launch date	15 August 2016 vs 27 September 2008
Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 520 MHz
Texture fill rate	133.6 GTexel / s vs 8.32 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 32
Floating-point performance	4,275 gflops vs 66.56 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 1300 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition

2.9x lower typical power consumption: 42 Watt vs 120 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	42 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	8160
PassMark - G2D Mark	444
Geekbench - OpenCL	31098
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	3677

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Tesla
Code name	GP106B	G84
Launch date	15 August 2016	27 September 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$237.11	$699
Place in performance rating	385	not rated
Price now	$229.99
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	49.49
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1708 MHz
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	520 MHz
CUDA cores	1280
Floating-point performance	4,275 gflops	66.56 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	80 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	94 °C
Pipelines	1280	32
Texture fill rate	133.6 GTexel / s	8.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	42 Watt
Transistor count	4,400 million	289 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	DP 1.43, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	192 GB / s	20.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz	1300 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
Surround
Virtual Reality
VR Ready