NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 119% (1709MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (5GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +776%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

20

40

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.20 GFLOPS

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 Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Oland

GP106-350-K3-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

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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