NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1789 points

1882 points

5% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

37 FPS

49 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS

33 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

347.28 points

697.32 points

100% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points

40962 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points

37410 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

77% significantly higher core clock speed

832 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz

1537 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s

44% significantly higher pixel rate

49.18 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s

20% slightly higher texture rate

98.37 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

2048

60% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

225th of 597

218th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2022 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs RTX A500 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the RTX A500 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the RTX A500 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the RTX A500 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q.