P106M vs GeForce GTX 560M SLI

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking568not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.67no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameN12E-GSGP106
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date6 January 2011 (13 years ago)23 January 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 cores3841152
Core clock speed775 MHz1291 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,400 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data92.95
Floating-point processing powerno data2.974 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data72

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
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 amountno data4 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data96.13 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.

DirectX1112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 January 2011 23 January 2019
Chip lithography 40 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 75 Watt

P106M has an age advantage of 8 years, a 150% more advanced lithography process, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 560M SLI and P106M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 560M SLI is a notebook graphics card while P106M is a mobile workstation one.


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