NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

AMD Radeon Sky 500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 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 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.7GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps +79%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2257 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

216.7GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GP106-410-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

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

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