GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB vs RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking31not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency20.27no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameDG2-512GP106
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date12 October 2022 (1 year ago)27 June 2017 (7 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 cores40961280
Core clock speed930 MHz1265 MHz
Boost clock speed1680 MHz1480 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,400 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rateno data118.4
ROPsno data48
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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount16 GB3 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed20000 MHz8008 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate12.0
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.5
OpenCLno data1.2
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 October 2022 27 June 2017
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 3 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 80 Watt

RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile has an age advantage of 5 years, a 433.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 166.7% more advanced lithography process.

GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB, on the other hand, has 181.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile
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