NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 265

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

AMD Radeon R7 265

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265 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 Clock has increased by 85% (1709MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (5GB vs 2GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon R7 265 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +130%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

Radeon R7 265

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

900 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

40

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

212 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs ATI FirePro V3900

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon Pro W5500

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6490

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

Related News

1

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

2

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

3

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

4

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

5

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

6

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

7

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

8

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

9

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early

10

Linux Creator Criticizes AMD and Intel's x86 Microarchitecture: A Complete Disaster