NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8400

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking1134not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money0.08no data
ArchitectureGCN (2011−2017)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameKabiniGP106
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date23 May 2013 (10 years old)27 June 2017 (6 years old)
Current price$78 $979
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1281280
Core clock speed600 MHz1265 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1480 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 million4,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate3.200118.4
Floating-point performanceno data3,789 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 8400 and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

Memory

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared3 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared192 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared8008 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.2 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

Video outputs and ports

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 outputsno data

API support

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12.0
Shader Model6.35.0
OpenGL4.64.5
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.131no data
CUDAno data6.1

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 23 May 2013 27 June 2017
Maximum RAM amount System Shared 3 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 80 Watt

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