NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP 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

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1709MHz vs 1175MHz)

More VRAM (5GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +107%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Jul 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

40

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

45W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

3 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

123 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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