NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q and NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q 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 1070 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 68% higher core clock speed: 1215 MHz vs 722 MHz
  • 2.5x more texture fill rate: 176.5 GTexel / s vs 69.31 GTexel / s
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1536
  • 2.5x better floating-point performance: 5,648 gflops vs 2,218 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 5012 MHz
  • 2.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9848 vs 3568
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 June 2017 vs 30 August 2015
Core clock speed 1215 MHz vs 722 MHz
Texture fill rate 176.5 GTexel / s vs 69.31 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 1536
Floating-point performance 5,648 gflops vs 2,218 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 28 nm
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 5012 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 9848 vs 3568

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

  • Around 15% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 115 Watt
  • Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 556 vs 423
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 115 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 556 vs 423

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
9848
3568
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
423
556
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q
PassMark - G3D Mark 9848 3568
PassMark - G2D Mark 423 556
Geekbench - OpenCL 39513
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 214.123
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2293.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.704
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 139.717
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 692.9
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14915
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8902
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8048
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14915
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8902
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8048
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4887

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

Essentials

Architecture Pascal Maxwell 2.0
Code name GP104 GM204
Launch date 27 June 2017 30 August 2015
Place in performance rating 218 217
Type Laptop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1379 MHz
Core clock speed 1215 MHz 722 MHz
Floating-point performance 5,648 gflops 2,218 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2048 1536
Texture fill rate 176.5 GTexel / s 69.31 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 7,200 million 5,200 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 None

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 256.3 GB / s 160.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz 5012 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready