Quadro T2000 Max-Q 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 rated303
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data30.88
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGP106TU117
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date27 June 2017 (7 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 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 cores12801024
Core clock speed1265 MHz1200 MHz
Boost clock speed1480 MHz1620 MHz
Number of transistors4,400 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate118.4103.7
Floating-point processing powerno data3.318 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs8064

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount3 GB4 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed8008 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.2 GB/s128.0 GB/s
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 dataNo outputs

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
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA6.17.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 June 2017 27 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 40 Watt

T2000 Max-Q has an age advantage of 1 year, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 33.3% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB and Quadro T2000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB is a notebook graphics card while Quadro T2000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
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