NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 570X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AMD Radeon RX 570X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X 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 Clock has increased by 37% (1708MHz vs 1244MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 570X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

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

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570X +29%

5.095 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

Radeon RX 570X

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

2048

72

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.81 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

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

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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