Iris Plus Graphics G7 64EU Mobile vs GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Generation 11.0 (2019−2021)
GPU code nameGP106Ice Lake GT2
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date27 June 2017 (7 years ago)4 May 2020 (4 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 cores1280512
Core clock speed1265 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1480 MHz1050 MHz
Number of transistors4,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology16 nm10 nm+
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate118.433.60
Floating-point processing powerno data1.075 TFLOPS
ROPs488
TMUs8032

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 3.0 x16Ring Bus
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount3 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width192 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed8008 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth192.2 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.012 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 June 2017 4 May 2020
Chip lithography 16 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 15 Watt

Iris Plus Graphics G7 64EU Mobile has an age advantage of 2 years, a 60% more advanced lithography process, and 433.3% lower power consumption.

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