NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano 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 Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano +87%

8.192 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

Radeon R9 Nano +211%

28

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

Radeon R9 Nano +76%

60

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

51

Radeon R9 Nano +47%

75

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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Radeon R9 Nano

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

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

HBM

192bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

4096

80

TMUs

256

48

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Fiji

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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