GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB vs Radeon RX 490M
General info
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | Polaris (2016−2019) | Pascal (2016−2021) |
| GPU code name | Polaris | GP106 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 1 August 2016 (7 years old) | 27 June 2017 (6 years old) |
| Current price | $479 | $979 |
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 cores | no data | 1280 |
| Core clock speed | no data | 1265 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 1480 MHz |
| Number of transistors | no data | 4,400 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | 16 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | no data | 80 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | no data | 118.4 |
| Floating-point performance | no data | 3,789 gflops |
Size and compatibility
Information on Radeon RX 490M 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.
| Laptop size | large | no data |
| Interface | no data | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | None |
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 type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Maximum RAM amount | no data | 3 GB |
| Memory bus width | no data | 192 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | no data | 8008 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 192.2 GB/s |
| Shared memory | - | no data |
API support
List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 | 12.0 |
| Shader Model | no data | 5.0 |
| OpenGL | no data | 4.5 |
| OpenCL | no data | 1.2 |
| CUDA | no data | 6.1 |
Advantages and disadvantages
| Recency | 1 August 2016 | 27 June 2017 |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | 16 nm |
We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 490M and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB. We've got no test results to judge.
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