Quadro P520 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 rated612
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.68
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameGP106GP108
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date27 June 2017 (7 years ago)23 May 2019 (5 years ago)

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 cores1280384
Core clock speed1265 MHz1303 MHz
Boost clock speed1480 MHz1493 MHz
Number of transistors4,400 million1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate118.435.83
Floating-point processing powerno data1.147 TFLOPS
ROPs4816
TMUs8024

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount3 GB2 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed8008 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.2 GB/s48.06 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.012 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA6.16.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 June 2017 23 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 18 Watt

GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Quadro P520, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 344.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB and Quadro P520. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB is a notebook graphics card while Quadro P520 is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
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