ION LE vs GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking275not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation26.22no data
Power efficiency17.04no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGP106ION
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 August 2016 (8 years ago)3 June 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$237.11 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores128016
Core clock speed1506 MHz450 MHz
Boost clock speed1708 MHzno data
Number of transistors4,400 million282 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt20 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature94 °Cno data
Texture fill rate133.63.600
Floating-point processing power4.275 TFLOPS0.0352 TFLOPS
ROPs484
TMUs808

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 sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCI
Widthno dataIGP

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 amount6 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width192 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed2002 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth192 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 ConnectorsDP 1.43, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVINo outputs
Multi monitor support+no data
HDCP2.2-
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream+-
GPU Boost3.0no data
VR Ready+no data
Ansel+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.44.0
OpenGL4.53.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 August 2016 3 June 2008
Chip lithography 16 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 20 Watt

GTX 1060 Mobile has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 306.3% more advanced lithography process.

ION LE, on the other hand, has 300% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and ION LE. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile is a notebook card while ION LE is a desktop one.


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