NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R7 M465X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q and AMD Radeon R7 M465X 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 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 18% higher core clock speed: 1063 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 60% higher boost clock speed: 1480 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • 4x more texture fill rate: 118.4 GTexel / s vs 29.6 GTexel / s
  • 2.5x more pipelines: 1280 vs 512
  • 4x better floating-point performance: 3,789 gflops vs 947.2 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
  • Around 78% higher memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 4500 MHz
  • 4.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7835 vs 1780
  • Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 401 vs 378
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 June 2017 vs 15 May 2016
Core clock speed 1063 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed 1480 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate 118.4 GTexel / s vs 29.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1280 vs 512
Floating-point performance 3,789 gflops vs 947.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 4500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 7835 vs 1780
PassMark - G2D Mark 401 vs 378

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 M465X

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7835
1780
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
401
378
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q AMD Radeon R7 M465X
PassMark - G3D Mark 7835 1780
PassMark - G2D Mark 401 378
Geekbench - OpenCL 30399
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 R7 M465X

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 1.0
Code name GP106 Tropo
Launch date 27 June 2017 15 May 2016
Place in performance rating 364 366
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1480 MHz 925 MHz
Core clock speed 1063 MHz 900 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,789 gflops 947.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1280 512
Texture fill rate 118.4 GTexel / s 29.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt
Transistor count 4,400 million 1,500 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
G-SYNC support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 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