NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs AMD Radeon R7 240

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps AMD Radeon R7 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

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

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.7GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps +776%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

VS

Radeon R7 240

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 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

2257 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

216.7GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

20

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 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)

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Oland

GP106-410-A1

GPU Variant

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

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

Board Design

120W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 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 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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