NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB, 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

2077 points

16% slightly better overall score

1789 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

30 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

25 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3292 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

347.28 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

28312 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

29934 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

32085 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

32446 points

0.25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

29492 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

15% slightly higher core clock speed

1480 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

Identical

6 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

80 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

222nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q comparison

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

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 has a slightly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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