NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon R7 250X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X 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 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +259%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

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

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

80W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

123 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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