NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon HD 6530

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon HD 6530

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

880 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6530 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +741%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6530

0.52 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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Radeon HD 6530

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

400

80

TMUs

20

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.00 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

520.0 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

39W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Redwood

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO (215-0757004)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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