AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

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AMD Radeon 540 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +381%

4.375 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jul 2016

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

192bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GP106

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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