GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and Switch GPU - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

Switch GPU

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

N17E-G1

GM20B

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

August 2016

March 2017

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

SLI options

-

-

Boost clock speed

1708 MHz

768 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

-

CUDA cores

1280

-

Floating-point performance

4,275 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

4,400 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

256

Power consumption (TDP)

80 Watt

15 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

94 °C

-

Texture fill rate

133.6

12.29

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

DP 1.43, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI

No outputs

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDCP

2.2

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

+

5.3

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.1.126

Ansel

+

-

GameStream

+

-

GPU Boost

3.0

-

VR Ready

+

-