GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB vs Radeon RX 5300

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking282not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency13.49no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameNavi 14GP106
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date28 May 2020 (4 years 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 cores14081280
Core clock speed1327 MHz1265 MHz
Boost clock speed1645 MHz1480 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 million4,400 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate144.8118.4
Floating-point processing power4.632 TFLOPSno data
ROPs3248
TMUs8880

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Length180 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 amount3 GB3 GB
Memory bus width96 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth168.0 GB/s192.2 GB/s

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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12.0
Shader Model6.55.0
OpenGL4.64.5
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.131-
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 May 2020 27 June 2017
Chip lithography 7 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 80 Watt

RX 5300 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 128.6% more advanced lithography process.

GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB, on the other hand, has 25% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5300 and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5300 is a desktop card while GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon RX 5300
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