GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB and RTX A500 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
RTX A500
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GP106
GA107
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2017
November 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1480 MHz
1770 MHz
Core clock speed
1265 MHz
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Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
80 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
113.3
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
12.0
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
6.1
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
Vulkan
-
1.3