NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

AMD Radeon R7 250X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X 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 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (5GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +259%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Feb 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

80W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

123 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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