NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon HD 6230

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

AMD Radeon HD 6230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

1072 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +3683%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6230

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

Radeon HD 6230

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

80

72

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

19W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Park

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Park S3 LP

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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