Iris Plus Graphics vs GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated645
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data22.99
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Generation 11.0 (2019−2021)
GPU code nameGP106Ice Lake GT2
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date27 June 2017 (7 years 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 cores1280512
Core clock speed1265 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1480 MHz1000 MHz
Number of transistors4,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology16 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate118.432.00
Floating-point processing powerno data1.024 TFLOPS
ROPs488
TMUs8032

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x1
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount3 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width192 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed8008 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth192.2 GB/sno data

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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.012 (12_1)
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.2no data
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 16 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 15 Watt

Iris Plus Graphics has a 60% more advanced lithography process, and 433.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB and Iris Plus Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB is a notebook card while Iris Plus Graphics is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
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Intel Iris Plus Graphics
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