NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M 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 8 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 6% higher core clock speed: 1063 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 9.1x more texture fill rate: 118.4 GTexel / s vs 13 billion / sec
  • 20x more pipelines: 1280 vs 64
  • 29.6x better floating-point performance: 3,789 gflops vs 128 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 65 nm
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 1 GB
  • 15.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7903 vs 504
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 June 2017 vs 3 March 2009
Core clock speed 1063 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 118.4 GTexel / s vs 13 billion / sec
Pipelines 1280 vs 64
Floating-point performance 3,789 gflops vs 128 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 7903 vs 504

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

  • Around 78% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 80 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 80 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7903
504
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
407
407
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M
PassMark - G3D Mark 7903 504
PassMark - G2D Mark 407 407
Geekbench - OpenCL 30239
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 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

Essentials

Architecture Pascal Tesla
Code name GP106 G94
Launch date 27 June 2017 3 March 2009
Place in performance rating 379 377
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1480 MHz
Core clock speed 1063 MHz 1000 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,789 gflops 128 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 1280 64
Texture fill rate 118.4 GTexel / s 13 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 45 Watt
Transistor count 4,400 million 505 million
CUDA cores 64
Gigaflops 192

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs DisplayPortHDMIDual Link DVILVDSSingle Link DVIVGA
G-SYNC support
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large large
Supplementary power connectors None
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.2 GB / s 51 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready
CUDA
MXM 3.0 Type-B
PCI-E 2.0
Power management 8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
PureVideo HD