GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs Arc 8-Core iGPU

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking299not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureXe LPG (2023)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameMeteor Lake iGPUGP104
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date14 December 2023 (1 year ago)no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores81280
Core clock speedno data1506 MHz
Boost clock speed2300 MHz1709 MHz
Number of transistorsno data7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data120 Watt
Texture fill rateno data136.7
Floating-point processing powerno data4.375 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data80

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data250 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR5X
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1001 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data256.3 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_212 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 5 nm 16 nm

Arc 8-Core iGPU has a 220% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Arc 8-Core iGPU and GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Arc 8-Core iGPU is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X is a desktop one.


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Intel Arc 8-Core iGPU
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
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