NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X 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 2 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (5GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +121%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +164%

3909

Radeon R7 260X

1476

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Oct 2013

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

1625 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

1280

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

40

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Bonaire

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

115W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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