NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7730

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q and AMD Radeon HD 7730 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 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 33% higher core clock speed: 1063 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 6.2x more texture fill rate: 118.4 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
  • 3.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 384
  • 6.2x better floating-point performance: 3,789 gflops vs 614.4 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 78% higher memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 4500 MHz
  • 6.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7817 vs 1208
  • Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 402 vs 391
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 June 2017 vs 1 May 2013
Core clock speed 1063 MHz vs 800 MHz
Texture fill rate 118.4 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1280 vs 384
Floating-point performance 3,789 gflops vs 614.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 4500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 7817 vs 1208
PassMark - G2D Mark 402 vs 391

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7730

  • Around 70% lower typical power consumption: 47 Watt vs 80 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 47 Watt vs 80 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7730

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7817
1208
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
402
391
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q AMD Radeon HD 7730
PassMark - G3D Mark 7817 1208
PassMark - G2D Mark 402 391
Geekbench - OpenCL 30314
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 147.271
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1681.162
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.754
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 98.592
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 416.14
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12767
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12767
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3316

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q AMD Radeon HD 7730

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 1.0
Code name GP106 Cape Verde
Launch date 27 June 2017 1 May 2013
Place in performance rating 375 373
Type Laptop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $59
Price now $49.99
Value for money (0-100) 37.12

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1480 MHz
Core clock speed 1063 MHz 800 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,789 gflops 614.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1280 384
Texture fill rate 118.4 GTexel / s 19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 47 Watt
Transistor count 4,400 million 1,500 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None None
Length 168 mm

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.2 GB / s 72 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz 4500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready