NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

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

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +333%

3.935 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

32bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

384

72

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Lexa

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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