NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon R9 370X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon R9 370X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X 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 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1709MHz vs 1030MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +65%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon R9 370X

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1030 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

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

32.96 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.40 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.637 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

164.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

180W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Trinidad

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Trinidad XT

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

314 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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