NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 340 OEM 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

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 119% (1708MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +556%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 340 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

Radeon R7 340 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

1152

Shading Units

384

72

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Oland

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

50W

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 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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