P106M: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started P106M sales 23 January 2019. This is a Pascal architecture notebook card based on 16 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 96.13 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 75 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about P106M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Pascal (2016−2021) | |
| GPU code name | GP106 | |
| Market segment | Mobile workstation | |
| Release date | 23 January 2019 (6 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
P106M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of P106M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1152 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 1291 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 1291 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Number of transistors | 4,400 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 16 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 75 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 92.95 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 2.974 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 72 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 432 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 1280 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of P106M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on P106M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 1502 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 96.13 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on P106M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | Portable Device Dependent |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by P106M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.8 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | |
| CUDA | 6.1 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to P106M is FirePro W7170M.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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