AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

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 GDDR5X +381%

4.375 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2018

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

1001 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

32bit

Memory Bus

192bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

384

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

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

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 Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GP104

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

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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