NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon R7 250XE

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

AMD Radeon R7 250XE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250XE 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 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250XE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +257%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250XE

1.101 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

Radeon R7 250XE

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Aug 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

640

72

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.76 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.40 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1101 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

80W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA P102 100

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce 510 OEM

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon R5 230

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon Pro 5300

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs ATI Radeon X1650 AGP

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Related News

1

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

2

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

3

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

4

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

5

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

6

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

7

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

8

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

9

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

10

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU