NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +45%

5.728 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

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

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

1152

Shading Units

2304

72

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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