NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM 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 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 84% (1708MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +313%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

930 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

512

72

TMUs

32

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

14.88 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

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

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